Foundations of Bioethics
Week One

Thursday, January 8th  
Introduction to course (no reading)

Week Two

Tuesday, January 13th  
“Bioethics” by Daniel Callahan
Group work: Bioethics cases and brainstorming
 
Thursday, January 15th  
“Fifty Years Later: The Significance of the Nuremberg Code” by Evelyne Shuster
“Racism and Research: The Case of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study” by Allan M. Brandt
“The Willowbrook Hepatitis Study” by David J. Rothman & Sheila M. Rothman

Week Three

Tuesday, January 20th
The Belmont Report           
The Declaration of Helsinki

Thursday, January 22nd  
“What Is Morality?” and “The Challenge of Cultural Relativism” by James Rachels & Stuart Rachels