Week 13: Ethics and Global Health

Major themes:
  • Addressing Equity Concerns
  • Safeguarding Rights of the Weak
  • Informed Consent and Genetic Rights
  • Global Clinical Trials: Economic Boon or Exploitation of the Vulnerable?
  • Intellectual Property Rights in the Context of Global Health
Individual Oral Presentations:
  • Grace--Thorny Issues in the Ethics of AIDS Vaccine Trails
  • Christina--Medial Ethics at Gantanamo Bay and Abu Ghriab

Case Study: "Inequality in the US Health Care System
  • Sheila and Cori

The lecture slides, oral presentations, and case study slides can be found here:Click here to view the screencast