Readings

Thursday  8/30/01

Introductions 

None 

Tuesday  9/4/01

Human genome project 

Pro:  **Ridley, Genome, 1999.

   Foreword, Intro (pp. 1-10); Ch. 4-6 (pp. 54-90); Ch. 11 (pp. 161-72); Ch. 15 (pp. 206-218); Ch. 18-19 (pp. 243-270); Ch. 21-22 (pp. 286-313). 

Con:  **Hubbard and Wald, Exploding the Gene Myth, 1999. 

   Ch. 5-10 (pp. 58-144); Ch. 12-Afterword (pp. 158-180). 

Thursday 

9/6/01

Eugenics 

**Sloan, Controlling Our Destinies, 2000.   

   Pernick.  Chapter 7.  Defining the Defective:  Eugenics, Esthetics, and Mass Culture in Early Twentieth-Century America (pp. 187-208).   

   Caplan.  Chapter 8.  What’s Morally Wrong with Eugenics? (pp. 209-222). 

   Murphy.  Commentary (on Caplan; pp. 223-228).   

   Kitcher.  Chapter 9.  Utopian Eugenics and Social Inequality (pp. 229-262). 

   Paul.  Commentary (on Kitcher; pp. 263-268).   

Tuesday 

9/11/01

Reproductive technologies 

+Pro:  Silver, 2000.  Reprogenetics:  How Reproductive and Genetic Technologies Will Be Combined to Provide New Opportunities for People to Reach Their Reproductive Goals.  In:  Stock, Gregory and John Campbell (eds.), Engineering the Human Germline, pp. 57-71. 

+Con:  Kass, 1995.  In:  Elshtain, Jean Bethke and J. Timothy Cloyd, The Human Body:  Assault on Dignity. 

Feminist perspective: 

   Elshtain, 1995.  The New Eugenics and Feminist Quandaries. In:  Elshtain, Jean Bethke and J. Timothy Cloyd, The Human Body:  Assault on Dignity, pp. 24-40.   

   Goslinga-Roy, Gillian M., 2000.  Chapter 5.  Body Boundaries, Fiction of the Female Self.  In:  Brodwin, Paul E. (ed.), Biotechnology and Culture. 

   Wilentz, 1995.  The Matter of Baby M.  Supreme Court of New Jersey, 1988.  In: Elshtain, Jean Bethke and J. Timothy Cloyd, The Human Body:  Assault on Dignity, pp. 67-86. 

   Shanley, 1995.  “Surrogate Mothering” and Women’s Freedom:  A Critique of Contracts for Human Reproduction. In:  Elshtain, Jean Bethke and J. Timothy Cloyd, The Human Body:  Assault on Dignity, pp. 87-106. 

   Steinberg, Deborah Lynn, Bodies in glass:  genetics, eugenics, embryo ethics, 1997.  Chapter 1.  Writing recombinant bodies:  the professional genea/logics of IVF, pp. 31-54. 

Thursday 

9/13/01

gene therapy, stem cell research 

Stock, Gregory and John Campbell (eds.), 2000, Engineering the Human Germline. 

   Capecchi.  Human germline gene therapy:  how and why (pp. 31-41). 

   Anderson.  A new front in the battle against disease (pp. 43-48). 

   Mauron et al.  Long-term possibilities and dangers (pp. 117-137). 

   Macer and Cohen.  Regulation and jurisdiction (pp. 139-144). 

AAAS site on stem cell research:  http://www.aaas.org/spp/dspp/sfrl/projects/stem/main.htm  

Tuesday 

9/18/01

selected by students 

selected by students 

[possibilities:   

 Rothstein, 1999.  Chapter 5.  Behavioral genetic determinism:  Its effects on culture and law. In:  Carson, Ronald A. and Mark A. Rothstein (eds.), Behavioral Genetics:  The Clash of Culture and Biology, pp. 89-115. 

 Andrews, 1999.  Chapter 6.  Predicting and punishing antisocial acts:  How the criminal justice system might use behavioral genetics. In:  Carson, Ronald A. and Mark A. Rothstein (eds.), Behavioral Genetics:  The Clash of Culture and Biology, pp. 116-155.] 

added by students: 

Chapter 2, pp. 12-31 

Part of Chapter 3, pp. 35-36, 48-56 

Chapter 8, pp. 172-186 

Henry, William A., 1993.  Born Gay?  Time, July 26, 1993: 36-39. 

Toufexis, Anastasia, 1993.  Seeking the roots of violence.  Time, April 19, 1993: 52-53. 

Lemonick, Michael D., 1999.  Smart genes?  Time, September 13, 1999: 54-61. 

Thursday 

9/20/01

Bodies 

General:  **Hancock et al., The Body, Culture, and Society:  An Introduction, 2000. 

   Hughes.  Chapter 1.  Medicalized Bodies (pp. 12-28). 

   Jagger.  Chapter 3.  Consumer Bodies (pp. 45-63). 

9/25/01

Sports

Sports:  Hoberman, Mortal Engines, 1992. 

   Chapter 1.  In the Penal Colony:  Sport and the Great Experiment (pp. 1-32). 

   Chapter 4.  Faster, Higher, Stronger:  A History of Doping in Sport (pp. 11-153). 

   Chapter 7.  A Conspiracy So Vast:  The Politics of Doping

(pp. 229-268). 

Eitzen, Fair and Foul, 1999. 

   Chapter 4.  Sport is fair, sport is foul (pp. 41-57). 

   Chapter 5.  Sport is healthy, sport is destructive (pp. 59-77). 

Burstyn, The Rites of Men, 1999. 

   Chapter 8.  High performance:  Drugs, politics, and profit in sport (pp. 221-251). 

Barnes, Julian, 2000.  Annals of endurance.  The hardest test:  Drugs and the Tour de France.  The New Yorker, August 21 & 28: 94-103. 

9/27/01

weight loss and the ideal body 

Brumberg, The Body Project, 1997. 

   Chapter 4.  Body Projects (pp. 97-137). 

Leccese, 1994.  Chapter 7.  Differential Prohibition, Scientific Discourse, and Anorexiant Stimulants.  In:  Winkler and Cole (eds.), The Good Body, pp. 108-123. 

Stearns, Fat History, 1997. 

   Chapter 5.  Stepping up the Pace:  Old Motives, New Methods (pp. 98-126). 

   Chapter 6.  Fat City:  American Weight Gains in the Twentieth Century (pp. 127-149). 

10/2/01

students decide

students decide  (cosmetic surgery? implants? Viagra?) 

1) http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v284n3/rfull/joc00055.html

2)http://www.time.com/time/magazine/1998/dom/980119/essay1.html

3)http://www.foresight.org/UTF/Unbound_LBW/chapt_1.html

http://www.foresight.org/UTF/Unbound_LBW/chapt_10.html

4)http://www.ubic-consulting.com/article_nutra6.htm 

5)  Valkin, Vanessa, 2001.  Weight Watchers in IPO.  Financial Times (London), September 15, 2001, Saturday USA Edition 2, p. 14.  

10/4/01

identity, mental illness, and medication; Prozac 

Luhrmann, Of Two Minds, 2000. 

   Introduction (pp. 3-24). 

   Chapter 7: Madness and Moral Responsibility (pp. 266-273). 

Kramer, Listening to Prozac, 1993. 

   Introduction (pp. ix-xix). 

   Chapter 1.  Makeover (pp. 1-21). 

   Chapter 7.  Formes Frustes:  Low Self-esteem (pp. 197-222). 

   Chapter 9.  The Message in the Capsule (pp. 250-300). 

   Afterword to the 1997 Edition (pp. 315-332). 

10/9/01

reaction against Prozac and other psychothera-peutic drugs 

Breggin and Breggin, Talking Back to Prozac, 1994. 

   Chapter 8.  Pushing drugs in America:  The long financial

tentacles of Eli Lilly (pp. 184-212). 

Valenstein, Blaming the Brain, 1998. 

   Chapter 5.  The interpretation of the evidence (pp. 125-163). 

   Chapter 6.  How the pharmaceutical industry promotes drugs and chemical theories of mental illness (pp. 165-201). 

Glenmullen, Prozac Backlash, 2000. 

   Introduction.  The Prozac Phenomenon (pp. 7-25). 

   Chapter 2.  Held Hostage:  Withdrawal, Dependence, and Wearing Off (pp. 64-105). 

   Chapter 5.  Behind-the-Scenes Forces:  Understanding the Prozac Phenomenon (pp. 189-232). 

   Epilogue:  Effecting Personal Change (pp. 333-338). 

added by students: 

Pomper, Stephen, 2000.  Drug Rush:  Why the prescription drug market is unsafe at high speeds.  http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2000/0005.pomper.html  

Brick, John, Ph.D. and Carlton Erickson, Ph.D.  Drugs, the brain, and behavior:  The pharmacology of abuse and dependence.  The Haworth Medical Press, New York and London. 

10/11/01

antibiotic resistance    

Levy, 1992, The Antibiotic Paradox:  How Miracle Drugs are Destroying the Miracle. 

   Chapter 3.  Reliance on medicines and self-medication:  the seeds of antibiotic misuse (pp. 53-66).    

   Chapter 4.  Antibiotic resistance:  microbial adaptation and evolution (pp. 67-104). 

   Chapter 6.  Antibiotics, animals, and the resistance gene pool (pp. 137-156). 

   Chapter 10.  Antibiotic resistance:  a societal issue at local, national, and international levels (pp. 223-253). 

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/living/dailynews/antibiotic990325.html  

Galewitz, Phil, 1999.  Battling drug resistance:  New antibiotic faces tough challenge.  http://abcnews.go.com  ??

10/16/01

drugs and marketing in the Third World (public health) 

Andrew Chetley, Problem Drugs, 1995. 

   Chapter 1.  What is a problem drug? (pp. 1-11) 

   Chapter 5.  Antidiarrhoeals:  Dying for lack of a drink (pp.

39-53) 

   Chapter 6.  Antibiotics and diarrhoea:  A dangerous

combination (pp. 54-61) 

   Chapter 10.  Antibiotics:  The antibiotic crisis (pp. 78-109) 

10/18/01

students decide 

students decide