Announcements
- Tech check
- Seating check
- Giveaways
- Current upcoming class activity dates:
- Probably Tuesday: Gowanus (infrastructure), weather allowing
- More frequent remote classes in November/December
Midterm checkpoint: today!
- Your total word count will be around 3300-3600.
- Please see the syllabus for the grading rubric.
- I’ll start reading today and will comment after reading all drafts. I’ll using this spreadsheet as a guide, based on the Checklist linked from Project Resources.
Interesting Events/Orgs/Opps
Agenda
- Microaggressions Training: thank you for sharing your experiences.
- Microaggressions: Research Papers and More
- Microaggressions: Research Papers and More
- Ethical Data Collection and “Human Subjects” Research
- Optional reading/watching list including
- COVID vaccine trials (Democracy Now!)
- COVID vaccine trials (Democracy Now!)
- Intersectionality came from Technology Issues!
- Intersectionality: Video discussions with Kimberlé Crenshaw (considered to have originated this term)
- Feminist Frequency (who provides an up-to-date overview)
- America’s Assembly Line: Discontent, a chapter on the era on which “Intersectionality Theory” was coined.
- Why Intersectionality Can’t Wait (Crenshaw)
- The case that started it all: DeGraffenreid v. General Motors
- Tables and Images (if we have time… definitely next week)
Assignment: Full Draft due on November 4
- Take a from writing if you need it!
- Then keep working towards the full draft due in 2 weeks, and expect comments and an updated checklist in the coming days (as I read your papers and identify patterns).
Optional Reading on Ethical Data Collection and Unethical Histories
- Deep Dive Sites:
- Tuskegee Timeline
- Holocaust Museum: The Nuremberg Code
- UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Human Radiation Experiments (focus on Part II. Case Studies)
- The Legacy of Henrietta Lacks
- The Stanford Prison Experiment
- The Belmont Report
- Human Subject Regulations Decision Charts
- FERPA and HIPAA
- Protection of Human Subjects (Federal Code)
- The Menlo Report
Chapter 7 of Medical Apartheid by medical ethicist Harriet Washington. This chapter takes a deep dive into the specifics of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. It also discusses some of the roots of the “lazy minority” stereotype.
- Option 1: Read through Bobst or Course Reserves
- Option 2: Listen to Chapter 7.1 and 7.2 (chapter ends halfway through the second recording)
Chapter 8 of Medical Apartheid by medical ethicist Harriet Washington. This chapter takes a deep dive into issues of reproductive control and race.
- Option 1: Read through Bobst or Course Reserves
- Option 2: Listen to Chapter 8.1 (chapter starts @ 35:44) and 8.2(ends around 40 minutes)
Harriet Washington on Democracy Now! (news show):
- COVID vaccine trials, Part I (Part I)
- Part II of the Democracy Now interview on inequities on COVID-related medical topics.
- 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?”
- Democracy Now!: Whistleblower Nurse in ICE Jail
- Letter sent to Congress
- Whistleblowers.gov, Whistleblower from Chapter 7 of Medical Apartheid
- Private prison: LaSalle Corrections
- Dr. Mahendra Amin, Nurse Eunice Rivers
- Companion segment to the ICE Whistleblower piece, “Belly of the Beast”: Survivors of Forced Sterilizations in California’s Prisons Fight for Justice. Other segments related to this episode are listed in the Extra Credit opportunities Google doc.
HHS.gov’s 1986 video on the Belmont Report, posted on YouTube
Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology, by Deirdre Cooper Owens (UGA Press)
- YouTube & Privacy
- Child Safety on YouTube (August 2019)
- Additional Videos, from TED
- Oxford moves to protect students from China’s Hong Kong security law (The Guardian)