EDST 391 Ethics & the Human Genome
Name:
Date:
"Calendar"
Assignment for
Day 24
Human chimeras
Cassidy and Caren's day!
Required reading:
Writing Assignment:
Consider the following research practices, then answer the
three questions below. We will be reviewing
your decisions in class.
- Human embryonic research
- Creating animal hybrid embryos (terminated after 14 days)
- Allowing animal hybrid embryos to develop into independent beings
- Animal testing
- Creating human-animal hybrid embryos (terminated after 14 days)
- Allowing human-animal hybrids embryos to develop into independent
beings
- Artificial insemination
- Designing embryos through gene selection
- Injecting living animals with human genetic material
- Transplanting animal organs into a human for medical treatment
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Drawing on
previous readings as well as your own ethical principles, please rank
them from 1 to 10 in order of acceptability (1 = the
most
acceptable).
- How did you decide what made
one
practice more ethically acceptable or less acceptable than another?
What process
or criteria did you use
when ranking them?
- Is the bottom-ranked practice
unacceptable, or is it just worse than the others?
A second writing assignment--What is your Paper 3 topic?
- Which bill (proposed law) do you
tentatively plan
to analyze in
your
Paper 3?
- Is there something not on the list you would rather write
about?
If so, please propose a bill that might be added to the list.
- By the
way,
these are just hypothetical bills, not real ones.
Quiz:
- There will be a short quiz at the beginning of class.