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Syllabus for 2007 Sunday, July 8 - Woodward Residence Hall 4:00PM-5:00PM—Check-in
Monday, July 9 - Management Education Center (MEC), Room 203 7:30AM-9:00AM - Breakfast at R-Place in Robeson Campus Center 9:00AM-11:00AM - Ken Richman - (Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Care) will discuss the subject matter of ethics, including moral theories and moral reasoning, with applications to specific moral problems in medical ethics. 11:00-Noon - Jeff Buechner - Critical thinking workshop: I. Introduction to the tools for critical assessment of arguments, examples of arguments from moral theory. Noon-1:00PM - Lunch at R-Place in Robeson Campus Center 1:00-2:30PM - Barry Komisaruk - fMRI technology and its use in the courtroom to assess the moral and legal responsibility of of those accused of criminal actions; includes an introductory talk on neuroanatomy. Ref. MRI 2:30-4:00PM - Break-out discussion groups; each group will present a five-minute position paper on using fMRI technology to make ascriptions of moral and legal responsibility. 4:00-5:00PM - Computer lab with Bob Nahory, Hill Hall - Room 126. 5:00-6:30PM - Dinner at R-Place in Robeson Campus Center 6:30-9:00PM - Golden Dome activities - swimming and basketball 11:00 PM - Woodward Hall (Lights Out)
Tuesday, July 10 - Management Education Center (MEC), Room 203 7:30AM-9:00AM - Breakfast at R-Place in Robeson Campus Center 9:00-10:00AM - Mill Jonakait (Biology Professor, Rutgers - Newark) will discuss human embryonic stem cells: what they are, how they might be used to fight disease and disability and how they can be harvested from human blastocysts without creating moral problems. 10:00-11:00AM - Video screening - Howard Hughes medical Center on Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research. 11:00-Noon - Jeff Buechner - Critical thinking workshop: II. Examples of arguments from neuroethics to be critically assessed. Noon-1:00PM - Lunch at R-Place in Robeson Campus Center 1:00-3:00PM - Dr. J. Liu (UMDNJ) will give a tour of his laboratory and show how an fMRI device works. 3:00-4:00PM - Break-out discussion groups on how accurate fMRI images are for courtroom purposes. Each group will present a five-minute position paper. 4:00-5:00PM - Computer lab with Bob Nahory, Hill Hall - Room 126 5:00-6:30PM - Dinner at R-Place in Robeson Campus Center 6:30-9:00PM - Film - Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby, to be viewed in the Dana Room in John Cotton Dana Library, fourth floor, with discussion led by Anna Stubblefield. 11:00 PM - Woodward Hall (Lights Out)
Wednesday, July 11 - Management Education Center (MEC), Room 203 7:30AM-9:00AM - Breakfast at R-Place in Robeson Campus Center 9:00-10:30AM - Linda McDonald Glenn (Alden March Center for Bioethics, SUNY Albany and University of Vermont School of Nursing) on genetic enhancements. 10:30AM-Noon - Jeff Buechner and Karen Chaffee (Chemistry Professor, Rutgers-Newark) - Critical thinking workshop: III. Why scientific reasoning is the best means for trying to find the truths of the world. The connection between critical reasoning and scientific reasoning. Demonstration of how alternative hypotheses are eliminated in a scientific investigation in food chemistry. Noon-1:00PM - Lunch at R-Place in Robeson Campus Center 1:00-2:30PM - Mock trial with members of the Rutgers Newark Law School and the School of Criminal Justice. The trial will concern someone accused of murder whose fMRI reveals a brain lesson that interferes with their capacity for making ethical judgments. (Appellate Court/Room 122 in the Rutgers Law School) 2:30-4:00Pm - Break-out discussion groups will present a five-minute position paper on the nature of science and religion and what is the most reliable way of investigating the world. 4:00-5:00PM - Computer lab with Bob Nahory, Hill Hall - Room 126 5:00-6:30PM - Dinner at R-Place in Robeson Campus Center 6:30-9:00PM - Members of the Rutgers Men's Basketball Team and Women's Basketball Team will conduct a tutorial workshop in basketball skills, including the art of shooting the ball and the importance of team support. 11:00 PM - Woodward Hall (Lights Out)
Thursday, July 12 - Bove Auditorium, Englehard Hall 7:30AM-9:00AM - Breakfast at R-Place in Robeson Campus Center 9:00-11:00AM - Dr. Valentine Burroughs (Chief Medical Officer and Chairman of Midicine, North General Hospital - Manhattan) will discuss some of the ethical issues that confront a practicing physician. He will be joined by Dr. Mark S. Johnson, MD/MPH, Chair/Professor of Family Midicine, UMDNJ and Director of University Center for Family Medicine; Dr. Kathrann Duncan, Asisttant Professor of Family Medicine, UMDNJ; James M. Orsini, fourth year medical student, UMDNJ; and Sam Beeler, JEMA Physician's Services, L.L.C. 11:00-Noon - Jeff Buechner - Critical thinking workshop: IV. Tools to access the correctness of concept definitions and their use in thinking about the morality of creating human embryonic stem cell lines. Noon-1:00PM - Lunch at R-Place in Robeson Campus Center 1:00-2:30PM - "Bioethics and Disability" - Anna Stubblefield (Philosophy Professor, Rutgers - Newark) will discuss the case of Ashley X, a 9-year old girl from Seattle. Ashley was born with extensive disabilities: she can not talk, walk, use her arms much, and she uses diapers and is fed with a tube. When she was 6, doctors at Seattle Children's Hospital, with her parents' approval, began to give her high levels of estrogen to stop her growth. They also removed her breast buds and uterus. The idea was to keep her small and undeveloped so that she would be easier for her parents to care for as she grows older. Was this ethical? 2:30-4:00PM - Break-out discussion groups will focus on the forever-a-child case: Whether the parents' decision is morally justifiable or not. 4:00-5:00PM - Computer lab with Bob Nahory, Hill Hall - Room 126 5:00-6:30PM - Dinner 6:30 PM - Students work on their presentations. 11:00 PM - Woodward Hall (Lights Out)
Friday, July 13 - Bove Auditorium, Englehard Hall 7:30AM-9:00AM - Breakfast at R-Place in Robeson Campus Center 9:00-11:00AM - LIfe Science Center - first floor Chemistry Lab: Extraction of your own DNA and permanent preservation of it. 11:00-Noon - Jeff Buechner - Critical thinking workshop: V. Why definitions matter in thinking about the treatment/enhancement distinction. Showing an argument against genetic enhancements fails because of an incoherent definition. Noon-1:00PM - Lunch at R-Place in Robeson Campus Center 1:00-5:00PM - Break-out groups to work on group presentations for Banquet 5:00-6:00PM - Light Dinner at R-Place in Robeson Campus Center 7:00-9:00PM - Newark Bears Baseball Game and Picnic, Bears & Eagles Riverfront Stadium, 450 Broad Street, Newark, NJ 07102. 11:00 PM - Woodward Hall (Lights Out)
Saturday, July 14 - Robeson Campus Center 7:30AM-9:00AM - Breakfast at R-Place in Robeson Campus Center 11:00-4:00PM - Located in the Multipurpose
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