ISD I

Ethics/Humanities/Health Law

Material for Monday, June 2^nd 1 - 3 p.m.

This package contains:

• “Organs to Market” a National Post editorial, April 4, 2002.
• “Ethical Incentives – Not Payment – for Organ Donation” New England Journal of Medicine 246 (2002): 2002-5
• Some letters in response to the NEJM article
• “Complementary and Alternative Medical Therapies: Implications for Medical Education” by Miriam S. Wetzel et al, Annals of Internal Medicine 138 (2003): 191-6

This session will deal with two topics:

• Organ donation and procurement (guest lecture by Max Bishop, Provincial Co- ordinator of Organ Procurement and Exchange of NL)
• The role of alternative medicine in medical education

Assignments

• Remember that your essay is due on June 9.
• If you are doing the journal assignment, you should have already made arrangements to see your journal supervisor. If you have not done so, you should see your supervisor ASAP

Note Changed Time for Session

• This session may be incorrectly listed in your schedule as ending at 2:30 p.m. The session will actually end at 3 p.m.

Additional Essay Topics

• Some have argued that the availability of organs for transplantation would be increased if a system of payments for organ donation were adopted (e.g., payments to the donor in the case of living donation, payments to the donor’s family in cases of cadaveric donation). Discuss this issue from an ethical perspective.

• What place should instruction in complementary and alternative medicine have in medical education?

• You may also write on a topic of your own choosing. Please see either John Crellin or Andrew Latus to discuss a topic.