# Calendar

Course calendar.
SES # | TOPICS | KEY DATES
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Power, Knowledge, Practice, and the Body
1 | Course Introduction: Biopolitics and Bioethics |
2 | Bio-Medical Ethics and Biological Citizenship |
3 | Creating Doctors |
4 | Medical Students in Malawi |
(Un)ethical Medical Care and Experimentation
5 | Medical Research and Ethical Medical Experimentation Screening: The Lynchburg Story: Eugenic Sterilization in America | Paper 1 due
6 | Contemporary Approaches to Autonomy, Consent, Disclosure, and Culture |
7 | Biological Citizenship? Cancer and AIDS in Africa Screening: It's My Life |
8 | Human Subjects Research, Pharmaceuticals, and Resource-Poor Settings Screening: Uganda – Your Money Or Your Life |
The(Bio)Politics of Intervention
9 | Reproduction, Contraception, and Abortion Screening: Skin Deep: Norplant in Poor Communities and 12th & Delaware | Paper 2 due
10 | Race and Reproduction Guest Lecturer: Khiara M. Bridges, Associate Professor of Law and Associate Professor of Anthropology, Boston University |
11 | New Reproductive Technologies and International Reproductive Tourism Guest Lecturer: Burcu Mutlu |
12 | Representing Medical Humanitarianism in Film Screening: Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders |
13 | Medical Humanitarianism Redux | Paper 3 due