Spring 2008 Virtual Visiting Scholars
Udo Schuklenk, Professor of Philosophy
Queen's University in Canada
http://www.udo-schuklenk.org/about.html
"Global Health Ethics"
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
7:00 - 8:30 p.m.
ATC 101 & West 216
This class will focus on various issues that are currently widely
discusses internationally in the context of global health. Among these
issue are ethical problems associated with infectious diseases control.
HIV/AIDS has long been taken to be the paradigmatic cases of a life-threatening sexually transmitted illness. It is sufficiently
prevalent in some countries in subsaharan Africa to threaten the very
survival of such societies. Some of the ethical controversies relate to
the questions of what are ethically acceptable standards of clinical
care that are undertaken by Western researchers in those countries, and
to the issue of whether or not mandatory HIV testing of pregnant women
in high HIV prevalence areas is ethically called for. Class participants
will have the opportunity to discuss some of these issues in greater
depth by means of a case scenario drawn from real-world experiences.
The second half of this class is dedicated to another thorny issue in
international health research, namely the issue of benefit sharing. What
kind sof benefits are owed to people wo share their traditional
knowledges with Western researchers and pharmaceutical companies. We
will be analysing three brief
scenarios covering cases in Mexico, India
and South Africa.
Host: Gregory Pasquarello
