Bioethics: Autonomy and Health
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Module: Disability and mental illness

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Week Thirteen

Monday, November 19th   
“Lessons about Autonomy from the Experience of Disability” by Carolyn Ells
“Disability, Bioethics, and Human Rights” by Adrienne Asch (pgs. 297-299, 311-315)

Wednesday, November 21st  
No class (turkey emergency)


Week Fourteen

Monday, November 26h   
“Confronting Death Who Chooses, Who Controls?” by Dax Cowart & Robert Burt
“Refusing Life-Sustaining Treatment After Catastrophic Injury: Ethical Implications” by Tia Powell & Bruce Lowenstein

Wednesday, November 28th  
“Cochlear Implants, Linguistic Rights, and ‘Open Future’ Arguments” by Patrick Kermit
“Ethical Dimensions of Paediatric Cochlear Implantation” by Rui Nunes

  • Short paper #3 due on Sunday, December 2nd @ 11:59 pm. Submit to Blackboard Assignments.    

Week Fifteen

Monday, December 3rd      
“Assessing Patients’ Capacities to Consent to Treatment” by Paul S. Appelbaum & Thomas Grisso
“The Ethics of Mandatory Community Treatment” by Mark R. Munetz et al.

Wednesday, December 5th   
Deciding for Others by Allen Buchanan & Dan Brock (pgs. 311-331)
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