Announcements: Class

• Please remind me to press “RECORD” if needed. Thanks in advance.
• Picking up from Thursday: AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine trial remains on hold in the U.S., HHS chief Azar says
• Resource of the day: Please add your clip to Medical Bias Clips
• Jamboard wrap-up: I didn’t see slides 2-3, sorry!
• NEW: Course Media (including audiobooks)
• Midterm Project Brief: will be posted by Friday 10/2, due on 10/20.
• Heaviness Breaks

Agenda

• Student Blog Spot Talk (chosen at random)
• Medical Tech
  • Discussion of Medical Apartheid, Chapter 7. Why was the Tuskegee Syphilis Study forty years?
    • Antecedents of “Lazy” Minorities
  • Democracy Now: COVID vaccine trials (Part I)
  • Deep Dive Sites:
    1. Tuskegee Timeline
    2. Holocaust Museum: The Nuremberg Code
    3. UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights
    4. Human Radiation Experiments (focus on Part II. Case Studies)
    5. The Legacy of Henrietta Lacks
    6. The Stanford Prison Experiment
    7. The Belmont Report
    8. Human Subject Regulations Decision Charts
    9. FERPA and HIPAA
    10. Protection of Human Subjects (Federal Code)
    11. The Menlo Report
• Coming Up in D&T: Workplace Tech Discussion: Big Blue Button and Jitsi

Assignments

• Due Thursday 10/1 :
  • Phase 1, Blog Post #8: 
    • Watch Part II of the Democracy Now interview on inequities on COVID-related medical topics. (And re-watch Part I if you need to.) Why do you think Harriet Washington argues that the Tuskegee Syphilis Study is not an appropriate parallel for the current COVID vaccine trials? What does Kaushik Sunder Rajan mean by the term “shell game?”
    • Examine one of the “Deep Dive” sites you didn’t already examine in class. Discuss its D&T issues, including SSIs.
  • Required Reading (if you need more time): Read or listen to Chapter 8 of Medical Apartheid. See Session 7’s assignment section for access info.

Announcements + Extra Credit

• Events: 
  • 10/1: Antigone in Ferguson (play + discussion of racialized police violence)
• Write a post about event(s) above or any of the following articles:
  • YouTube & Privacy
    • Child Safety on YouTube (August 2019)
    • Upcoming Changes to kids content on YouTube (November 2019, enacted January 2020 according to Verge.com)
  • HHS.gov’s 1986 video on the Belmont Report, posted on YouTube
  • Additional Videos, from TED
    • The Problem of Race Medicine
    • Why Medicine Often Has Dangerous Side Effects For Women
  • Oxford moves to protect students from China’s Hong Kong security law (The Guardian)

Opportunities

• Internships at JP Morgan:
  • AI & ML
  • Quantum Computing
  • Quantitative Analytics
  • Consumer & Community Banking