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Introduction |
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Manhattan Project |
 Rotblat, Joseph. "Leaving the Bomb Project." In Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Educational Found for Nuclear, 1986, pp. 16-19. ISBN: 9780941682084.
Oppenheimer, Robert. "Speech to the Association of Los Alamos Scientists, November 2, 1945." In Robert Oppenheimer: Letters and Recollections. Edited by Alice Kimball Smith, and Charles Weiner. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1980, pp. 315-325. ISBN: 9780674776050.
Sherwin, Martin. "The Two Policemen." In A World Destroyed: The Atomic Bomb and the Grand Alliance. New York: Vintage, 1973, pp. 90-114. ISBN: 0394721489.
Palevsky, Mary, ed. "Philip Morrison: Witness to Atomic History." In Atomic Fragments: A Daughter's Questions. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2000, pp. 73-91. ISBN: 9780520220553.
Szilard, Leo. "President Truman Did Not Understand." U.S. News & World Report, August 15, 1960, pages 68-71. Authorized reprint (HTML)
Hersey, John. "The Fire." Chapter 2 in Hiroshima. New York, NY: Vintage, 1989, pp. 24-55. ISBN: 9780679721031.
Film:
Else, Jon, David Webb Peoples, and Janet Peoples. The Day After Trinity. Directed by Jon Else. Produced by Janet Peoples. 88 min. 1980. |
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Hiroshima, Nagasaki and the National Security State |
Stimson, Henry. "The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb." Harpers, February 1947, 97-107.
Walzer, Michael. Just and Unjust Wars: A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations. New York, NY: Basic Books, 1992, pp. 263-268. ISBN: 9780465037018.
Walker, J. S. "The Decision to use the Bomb." Diplomatic History 14 (1990): 97-114.
Dower, John. "The Bombed: Hiroshimas and Nagasakis in Japanese Memory." Diplomatic History 19, no. 2 (1995): 275-295.
Lifton, Robert Jay, and Greg Mitchell. "Commemorating Hiroshima: The Smithsonian Controversy." Chapter 5 in Hiroshima in America: Fifty Years of Denial. New York, NY: Penguin Putnam, 1995, pp. 276-297. ISBN: 9780399140723.
Weiner, Norbert. "A Scientist Rebels." Atlantic Monthly. January 1947, 46.
Schweber, Sam, ed. "The Philip Morrison Case." In In the Shadow of the Bomb: Oppenheimer, Bethe, and the Moral Responsibility of the Scientist. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000, pp. 130-146. ISBN: 9780691049892. |
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Cold War Science
Guest Speaker: Louis Kampf (Emeritus Professor and Anti-war Activist) |
Nelkin, Dorothy. Chapters 1, 3, 4, 6, and 7 in The University and Military Research: Moral Politics at MIT. Ithaca, NY: Cornell university press, 1972. ISBN: 9780801407116.
Siever, Ray. "Doing Earth Science Research During the Cold War." In The Cold War and the University: Toward an Intellectual History of the Postwar Years. Edited by Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn. New York, NY: New Press, 1998, pp.147-170. ISBN: 9781565843974.
Whiteley, John. "The Hanford Nuclear Reservation." Chapter 2 in Critical Masses: Citizens, Nuclear Weapons Production, and Environmental Destruction in the United States. Edited by Russell Dalton, et al. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1999, pp. 29-57. ISBN: 9780262541039.
O'Neill, Dan. "Alaska and the Firecracker Boys: The Story of Project Chariot." In The Atomic West. Edited by Bruce Hevly and John Findlay. Seattle, WA: The University of Washington Press, 1998, pp. 179-199. ISBN: 9780295977164. |
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Secrecy and Conflicts of Interest
Guest Speaker: Sheldon Krimsky (Tufts University) |
Galison, Peter. "Removing Knowledge." Critical Inquiry . 2003.
Cohen, Jon. "Share and Share Alike isn't Always the Rule in Science." Science (June 23 1995): 1715-1718.
Marshall, Eliot. "Need a Reagent? Just Sign Here..." Science (October 10 1997): 212-213.
King, Ralph. "Bitter Pill: How a Drug Firm Paid for University Study, then Undermined it." Wall Street Journal (April 25, 1996).
Zalewski, Daniel. "Ties that Bind." Lingua Franca (June/July 1997): 51-59.
Press, Eyal, and Jennifer Washburn. "The Kept University." Atlantic Monthly, March 3, 2000.
Krimsky, Sheldon. "Conflict of Interest and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis." Journal of the American Medical Association 282 (October 20, 1999): 1474-1475.
Goozner, Merril. "Unrevealed: Non-Disclosure of Conflicts of Interest In Four Leading Medical and Scientific Journals." Center for Science in the Public Interest, 12 July 2004. (PDF) |
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Experimentation on Human Subjects |
"The Nuremberg Code." In Trials of War Criminals Before the Nuremberg Military Tribunals. Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1949, pp. 181-182.
Makhijani, Arjun. "Energy Enters Guilty Plea." In Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists . March/April 1994, pp. 18-29.
Brandt, Allan. "Racism and Research: The Case of the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment." In Tuskegee's Truths: Rethinking the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2000, pp. 15-33. ISBN: 9780295977164.
Marks, John. The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind Control. New York, NY: Norton, 1979, Chapters 1-5. ISBN: 9780812907735.
Film:
Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons, and Our Environment. Produced and directed by Debra Chasnoff. 27 min. 1991. |
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Experiments on Humans II |
Finish: Marks, John. The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind Control. New York, NY: Times Books, 1979. ISBN: 9780812907735.
Slater, Lauren. "Obscura: Stanley Milgram and Obedience to Authority." In Opening Skinner's Box: Great Psychological Experiments on the Twentieth Century. New York, NY: Norton, 2005. ISBN: 9780393326550.
Zimbardo, Philip. "On the Ethics of Intervention in Human Psychological Research: With Special Reference to the Stanford Prison Experiment." Cognition 2, no. 2 (1973): 243-256.
Lurie, P., and S. M. Wolfe. "Unethical Trials of Interventions to Reduce Perinatal Transmission of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus in Developing Countries." New England Journal of Medicine 337 (1997): 853-856.
Angell, Marcia. "The Ethics of Clinical Research in the Third World." New England Journal of Medicine 337 (1997): 847-849.
Correspondence. New England Journal of Medicine 338 (1998): 836-844.
Film:
Obedience. Produced and directed by Stanley Milgram. 45 min. 1962. |
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Risk, Professional (Mis)Conduct, and Engineering
Guest Speaker: Allison Macfarlane (MIT Security Studies Program) |
Bok, Sissela. "Whistleblowing and Leaks." In Secrets: The Ethics of Concealment and Revelation. New York, NY: Vintage, 1989, pp. 210-229. ISBN: 9780679724735.
Whitbeck, Caroline. "Two Models of Professional Behavior: Roger Boisjoly and the Challenger, William Lemessurier's Fifty-Nine Story Crisis." In Ethics in Engineering Practice and Research. Edited by Caroline Whitbeck. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1998, pp. 133-156. ISBN: 9780521479448.
Langewiesche, William. "Columbia's Last Flight." The Atlantic Monthly, November 2003.
Perrow, Charles. Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999, pp. 3-12, 15-31, 304-352. ISBN: 9780691004129.
Carson, Rachel. "A Fable for Tomorrow," "The Obligation to Endure," and "The Rumblings of an Avalanche." Chapters 1, 2, and 16 in Silent Spring. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 2000. ISBN: 9780141184944.
Rosenberg, Tina. "What the World Needs now is DDT." New York Times Magazine, April 11, 2004, 38-43. |
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Democracy and Science |
Rampton, Sheldon, and John Stauber, eds. "The Best Science Money Can Buy." In Trust Us, We're Experts! How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with Your Future. New York, NY: Penguin Putnam Books, 2002, pp. 195-221. ISBN: 9781585421398.
Raloff, Janet. "Democratizing Science." Science News, November 7 1998.
Sclove, Richard. "Town Meetings on Technology." Technology Review.
Bach, Fritz et al. "Uncertainty in Xenotransplantation: Individual Benefit Versus Collective Risk." Nature Medicine, vol. 4, pp. 141-144, 1998.
Pinch, Trevor, and Harry Collins. "ACTing Up: AIDS Cures and Lay Expertise." In The Golem at Large: What You Should Know About Technology. Edited by Trevor Pinch, and Harry Collins. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2002, pp. 126-150. ISBN: 9780521012706.
Film:
Kohn, Howard, David Shaber, and David Weir. Rollover. Directed by Alan J. Pakula. Produced by Bruce Gilbert. 118 min. 1981.
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Globalization and Medicine
Guest Speaker: Amy Smith (Mechanical Engineering Lecturer) |
Finkel, Michael. "This Little Kidney went to Market." New York Times Magazine, May 27, 2001.
Kidder, Tracy. Mountains Beyond Mountains: Healing the World: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer. New York, NY: Random House, 2003, pp. 1-179. ISBN: 9780375506161.
Cohen, Lawrence. "Where it Hurts: Indian Material for an Ethics of Organ Transplantation." Daedalus 128, no. 4: 135-166. |
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Medicine and Biotechnology
Guest Speaker: James Shirley (Associate Professor in Biological Engineering) |
Finish: Kidder, Tracy. Mountains Beyond Mountains: Healing the World: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer. New York, NY: Random House, 2003, pp. 1-179. ISBN: 9780375506161.
Rifkin, Jeremy. Chapters 1-3 in Biotech Century: Harnessing the Gene and Remaking the World. Tarcher, 1998. ISBN: 9780874779097. |
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Biotechnology |
Finish: Rifkin, Jeremy. Biotech Century: Harnessing the Gene and Remaking the World. Tarcher, 1998. ISBN: 9780874779097.
Film:
Lent, Chris. The Gene Hunters. Directed by Mary-Ann Alton, et al. Produced by Glen Salzman and Andre Singer. 2000. |
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New Ethical Frontiers
Guest Speaker: Dr. Theodora Capaldo (President New England Anti-Vivisection Society) |
Singer, Peter, ed. "Tools for Research." In Writings on an Ethical Life. New York, NY: Harper Collins, 2001, pp. 47-56. ISBN: 9780060007447.
Nelkin, Dorothy. "The Social Power of Genetic Information." Ibid. pp. 177-190.
Lewontin, Richard. "The Confusion Over Cloning." New York Review of Books (October 23, 1997): 18-24.
Kaplan, Arthur. "If Ethics won't Work here, Where?" In The Human Cloning Debate. Edited by Glenn McGee. Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Hills Books, 2002, pp. 58-67. ISBN: 1893763415.
Kass, Leon. "The Wisdom of Repugnance: Why We Should Ban Human Cloning." In The Human Cloning Debate. Edited by Glenn McGee. Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Hills Books, 2002, pp. 58-67. ISBN: 1893763415.
Pollan, Michael, ed. "Desire: Control/ Plant: The Potato." In The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World. New York, NY: Random House, 2001, pp. 181-238. ISBN: 9780375501296.
Belkin, Lisa. "The Made-to-Order Saviour." In The Best American Science Writing 2002. Edited by Matt Ridley. New York, NY: Harper Collins, 2002, pp. 34-53. ISBN: 9780060936501.
Meilaender, Gilbert. "The Point of a Ban Or, How to Think about Stem Cell Research." Hastings Center Report (January/February 2001). |