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Mr. Richard Geib
2009-20010 Academic School Year |
PHILOSOPHIES (rss..>):
Essential Philosophies: Idealism, Realism, Pragmatism, Existentialism
Philosophy Applied: Test Scenarios
Opposing and irreconcilable values and difficult ethical choices.
 The Arrival Of Elie
Pandemic Outbreak of H1Ni Swine Flu
MEDICAL
ETHICS: THEORY AND ABUSES
Hippocratic Oath: Ancient and modern
Medical Abuses: The most unfortunate 20th century
Nazis, Communists, Tuskeegee
experiments, drug testing in 3rd world.
Ethics for Health Care Workers: Professional Codes of Behavior and the Law
Confidentiality, privacy, paternalism, and "culturally appropriate" care
TERMINUS: END OF LIFE ISSUES (rss..>):
The Phenomenon of Suicide (rss..>):
Rash, premeditated; autonomy and "the law."
 Right or Wrong?
Capital Punishment in Contemporary America
An ancient argument rages anew.
Withholding and Withdrawing Life Support
Biological and biographical life; brain death and persistent vegitative state; DNR and advanced directives; and hospice care and organ donation.
Euthanasia: Practices and Principles
Active and passive
"The Right to Die"
"The Assisted Suicide of Dan James"
Euthanasia Synthesis Essay
"Dear Dr. Ted Baehr..."
THE FOOD CYCLE: ANIMALS AND PLANTS AND HOW WE USE THEM (rss..>)
American Farming and Eating: The "slow food" movement and its critics.
Synthesis Essay
Medical Experimentation on Laboratory Animals
PETA and "Human Exceptionalism"
Synthesis Essay Online (prompts)
TOO LITTLE BUTTER OVER TOO MUCH BREAD: THE ALLOCATION OF SCARCE HEALTH CARE RESOURCES
Domestic Health Insurance and Justice
History of health insurance in America and current realities; proposals from within and examples from overseas; health care reform in California and the United States; no easy choices.
Many Countires, Many Systems
International Public Health and Equity
"Preferential treatment for the poor" and pros and cons of Cuban social model; AIDS and public health; the struggle for global consensus.
NGO AND WHO: "PUBLIC HEALTH IN ACTION"
Main Actors at Play: International Bureaucracies and Unofficial Altruism
The main-line world health agencies and non-governmental organizations
FIRST SEMESTER FINAL EXAM
Many Possible Futures: Plan your work and work your plan!
Ventura County Commision for Health Care Summer Intern Program
THE DELICATE, DIFFICULT CONVERSATION: BEGINNING OF LIFE ISSUES, PART I
Faith Versus Reason: Must It Be So?
The theory of evolution taught in science classrooms in public schools; what is "science," what is not "science" -- and why that is important; what we know and don't know; and Intelligent Design as an alternative theory?
TRANS- AND POST-HUMANISM: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE DANGEROUS, PART I
Introduction: "Human Exceptionalism" Revisited
Science and medecine, the alleviation of unecessary suffering, and "human progress" as reason helps mankind help itself; hubris, Frankenstein's Monster, and "playing God."
The Genetics Revolution: Human Genome Project, Genetic Engineering, Genetically Modified Organisms
Nosce te ipsum for real: privacy concerns and possible benefits; the dangers of manipulating the "Book of Life," genetic equity and "designer babies"; genetic "diversity" at risk among food, plant, and animal/human life.
Cloning: Controversial theory and commonplace practice: theapeutic and reproductive cloning.
Stem Cell: Possibilities and Perils
Adult, embryonic, adult, and chord "stem" cells; the idea of "personhood" introduced.
"Why Not Seize the Power?" with Professor Lee Silver
THE DELICATE, DIFFICULT CONVERSATION: BEGINNING OF LIFE ISSUES, PART II
The Dance of Courtship, Sexuality, and Conception: Pre-marital sex, sex education in public schools, in vitro fertilization, and abortion.
Emerging adults, budding sexuality, and the 'rents; abstinence and right vs. wrong; sexually transmitted diseases and public health; sex education and youth in the schools; conception, contraception, adoption, and abortion; Roe vs. Wade, Pro-Choice, and Pro-Life; righteous anger, the ambiguity of the majority, and (seemingly) endless discomfiture.
Respond to Mr. Geib's Dad
"Where Does Life Begin?"
TRANS- AND POST-HUMANISM: THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE DANGEROUS, PART II
Nanotechnology: Today and tomorrow: from the drawing board to production and use.
Not Man, Not Machine: Moore's Law as the catalyst: the subsequent blending of organic and inorganic matter in homo sapies, our "post-human" future, and the concept of "singularity."
Blade Runner and AI
Cohort 4 Delivers it Unto Cohort 3
THE PARTHIAN SHOT
Parting Podcast for FTHS Bioethics Seniors:
A final, piquant shot!
NOT copyrighted - SPREAD THE WEALTH!
"He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density at any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation."
-- Thomas Jefferson
last updated on
January 6, 2010
by Richard James Geib
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