| 1 |
Introduction |
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| 2 |
Manhattan Project |
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| 3 |
Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the National Security State |
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| 4 |
Cold War Science
Guest Speaker: Louis Kampf (Emeritus Professor and Anti-war Activist) |
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Secrecy and Conflicts of Interest
Guest Speaker: Sheldon Krimsky (Tufts University) |
First paper due |
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Experimentation on Human Subjects |
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Experiments on Humans II |
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Risk, Professional (Mis)Conduct, and Engineering
Guest Speaker: Allison Macfarlane (MIT Security Studies Program) |
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| 9 |
Democracy and Science |
Second paper due |
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Globalization and Medicine
Guest Speaker: Amy Smith (Mechanical Engineering Lecturer) |
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Medicine and Biotechnology
Guest Speaker: James Shirley (Associate Professor in Biological Engineering) |
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Biotechnology |
Final paper due |
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New Ethical Frontiers
Guest Speaker: Dr. Theodora Capaldo (President New England Anti-Vivisection Society) |
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