Dilemmas in Bio-Medical Ethics: Playing God or Doing Good?

[RO] = Roberts, Dorothy. Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty . Vintage Books, 1998. ISBN: 9780679758693.

Recommended Background Readings

Foucault, Michel. “The Politics of Health in the Eighteenth Century.” In Power (Essential Works of Foucault, 1954–1984, Vol. 3). Edited by James D. Faubion. New Press, 2001. ISBN: 9781565847095.

———. “The Birth of Biopolitics.” In Ethics: Subjectivity and Truth (Essential Works of Foucault, 1954–1984 , Vol. 1). Edited by Paul Rabinow. New Press, 1998. ISBN: 9781565844346.

Kuhse, Helga, and Peter Singer. “What is Bioethics? A Historical Introduction.” Chapter 1 in A Companion to Bioethics . 2nd ed. Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. ISBN: 9781444350845.

Lock, Margaret, and Nancy Scheper Hughes. “A Critical-Interpretive Approach in Medical Anthropology: Rituals and Routines of Discipline and Dissent.” Chapter 3 in Medical Anthropology: Contemporary Theory and Method . Revised ed. Edited by Carolyn F. Sargent and Thomas M. Johnson. Praeger, 1996. ISBN: 9780275952655.

[W] Chapter 1: Introduction: Moral Order and Medical Science. Skim pp. 6–15, read pp.16–35.

[W] Chapter 4: Seeing Deeply and Seeing Through in the Basic Science Years.

[W] Chapter 5: The Word Made Flesh: Hospital Experience and the Clinical Crisis.

[W] Chapter 6: Resource Is a Verb: Realities and Responses.

[RO] Chapter 2: The Dark Side of Birth Control.

Optional Resource

Recommended Reading

[RO] Chapter 3: From Norplant to the Contraceptive Vaccine: The New Frontier of Population Control.

Guest Lecturer: Khiara M. Bridges, Associate Professor of Law and Associate Professor of Anthropology, Boston University

[B] Chapter 1: Alpha Hospital: Unique, But Not Singular.

[B] Chapter 2: Pregnancy, Medicaid, State Regulation, and Legal Subjection.

[B] Chapter 4: The ‘Primitive Pelvis,’ Racial Folklore, and Atavism in Contemporary Forms of Medical Disenfranchisement.

[B] Chapter 5: The Curious Case of the ‘Alpha Patient Population’.

[B] Chapter 6: Wily Patients, Welfare Queens, and the Reiteration of Race.

Guest Lecturer: Burcu Mutlu

[ROE] Yo Soy Teresa la Fea / Ugly Teresa .

Roberts, Dorothy. Killing the Black Body: Race, Reproduction, and the Meaning of Liberty . Vintage Books, 1998. ISBN: 9780679758693.