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All reading and homework assignments are due the day of. Click on the link for more info. The readings with a † next to them are optional, though recommended.

Gen-Ethics
DAY TOPIC READING FILM H/W
Wed 7/18 Intro to unit – FCC 1-20
– FCC 21-26 (the missing pages from pdf file)
– Human Genome Project 		After Darwin
Thu
7/19 		Intro; Eugenics – Eugenics and Human Rights (GRHR 101-24)
– Eugenics and Genetic Manipulation (GRHR 125-32)†
– FCC "Ethical Autopsy"
– Is Our Fate in Our Genes? (short article)†
– Giving Darwin his Due by Philip Kitcher [only read section 5, about Darwinism & Ethics]
– Is Biology a Political Science?†
Fri
7/20 		Genetic Testing and Discrimination – Case One: Genetic privacy/nondiscrimination [Northern California Biotechnology Center]
– GRHR 39-60
– Disowning Knowledge †
– Nullfied Policy Recs on Genetic Testing
– Genetic Discrimination [Council for Responsible Genetics] † 		Gattaca  Quiz 2
Mon
7/23 		Distributive Justice – FCC Ch. 3 HW 3
Tue
7/24 		Positive & Negative Genetic Interventions – FCC Ch. 4
Wed
7/25 		Why not the best? – FCC Ch. 5 excerpts (note: page is incorrectly titled as chapter 6)
Thu
7/26 		Cloning – Dolly: An Unsettling Breakthrough (poke around for background)
– Dolly: The Age of Biological Control by Ian Wilmut [GRHR 19-27] (Wilmut is the guy who cloned Dolly)
– Should Human Cloning be Banned? †
– Case Two: Cloning [Northern California Biotechnology Center]
– Whose Self is it Anyway? by Philip Kitcher
– Brave New World, Chapt. 1
– Clones, Genes and Human Rights by John Harris [GRHR 61-94] † 		The 6th Day
Bladerunner
Fri
7/27 		Cloning, contd. – Cloning Human Beings by Dan Brock
– National Bioethics Advisory Committee recommedations
– The Confusion over Cloning by R.C. Lewontin
Mon
7/30 		The Commercialization of Genetics: GMOs & patenting life – GMOs
– Case Three: Patenting Genes
[Northern California Biotechnology Center]
– Who Owns Your DNA?
– Genetics and Patenting [Human Genome Project]
– A biotech company defends gene patents
– Examples of gene patents
– No Patents on Life [Council for Responsible Genetics] 		HW 4