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MBG 416

Science and Ethics

MBG 416 sits at the end of the MBG curriculum because it asks the question the rest of the degree quietly assumes away: just because we *can* do something in a lab, should we? You'll work through case-based discussions and write argumentative essays on the hard problems your research toolkit actually creates, informed consent, genetic enhancement, abortion and euthanasia, organ allocation, animal and human experimentation, authorship and data integrity. Assessment is built around two written midterms, quizzes, and a presentation, so coming in with a real opinion you can defend matters more than memorizing definitions. The point isn't to hand you a rulebook but to make sure you graduate knowing how to recognize an ethical question before you've already answered it with a pipette.

Kredi3ECTS5FakülteFaculty of ScienceBölümMolecular Biology and GeneticsKoordinatörTayfun ÖzçelikMüfredatY4 Güz

Haftalık müfredat 14 hafta

Hafta 114–20 Eyl
Giriş
Introduction
Hafta 221–27 Eyl
Biyoetiğe giriş ve etik karar düzeyleri
What is bioethics? • Introduction to ethics and bioethics. • How to understand that an ethical conclusion is valid. • Consequentialism • What are the levels at which ethical decisions are made?
bioethicsconsequentialismetik geçerlilikkarar düzeyleri
Hafta 328 Eyl – 4 Eki
Hasta ve hekim özerkliği, informed consent
Patient Autonomy and Provider Autonomy • What is autonomy and medical paternalism? (…) • When is informed consent necessary? (…) • Truth-telling (n/a) • Can a patient refuse the life-saving treatment? (…) • What are the obligations of providers? (…) • Conscientious objection & Complicity (…)
patient autonomymedical paternalisminformed consentconscientious objection
Hafta 45–11 Eki
İnsan Deneylerinde Etik Sorunlar
Human Experimentation: Ethical Concerns • History of Human experimentation (…) • Why do we need human experimentation? (…) • Is there any alternative human experimentation? (…) • What are the regulations? (…) • How much should we informed regarding the experimentation that will go on our body and/or on our samples? (…) • How are the clinical trials conducted? (…)
human experimentationclinical trialsetik düzenlemelerbilgilendirilme
Hafta 512–18 Eki
Genetik Bilgi ve Genetic Enhancement
Human Genetics: Genetic Information and Genetic Enhancement • What is genetic information? Who can extract the genetic information? How the samples are collected and protected? (…) • How can the genetic information be used today? (…) • Can the genetic information be patented? Should the genetic information be publicly available? (…) • What is genetic enhancement? What are the techniques of Human enhancement? Why may we need to enhance human genetics? (…) • Can GATTACA become real? Is creation of new class of society likely? (…) • What are the regulations on human enhancement? (…)
genetik bilgigenetic enhancementgen patentiGATTACA
Hafta 619–25 Eki
Birinci midterm sınavı
First mid-term
midterm
Hafta 726 Eki – 1 Kas
Yaşamın başlangıcı ve sonu: etik sorunlar
Starting and Ending Human Life: Ethical Concerns • What is assisted reproduction technology? (…) • Do people have right to consider collaborative reproduction? Would you donate your gamete? (…) • What is parenthood? Is surrogacy ethical? (…) • Is it my body and my decision? (Autonomy and Medical Paternalism) Restrictive and permissive views of abortion. (…) • Dealing with death: Euthanasia and related issues. (…)
assisted reproduction technologysurrogacyabortioneuthanasia
Hafta 82–8 Kas
Organ bağışı ve insan klonlama etiği
Organ Donation and Human Cloning • What is God Committee? Who determines the organ waiting list? Organ donation and waiting list regulations in Turkey (…) • Organ transplantation criteria and other regulations about autonomy (…) • Ethical issues regarding the organ donation (…) • Would You Donate Your Organs? Why should you do? (…) • Is human cloning ethical? (…)
organ donationhuman cloningGod Committeeorgan transplantation criteria
Hafta 99–15 Kas
Hayvan deneyleri ve etik kaygılar
Animal Experimentation: Ethical Concerns • Why do we need animal experimentation? (…) • What are the regulations of animal experiments? (…) • Is there any alternative to animal experimentation? (…) • What is animal cloning? What is the history of animal cloning? What are the uses of animal cloning? (…) • Can and should we save extinct species? (…) • How are the other uses of animals (hunting, pets, food) is justified relative to scientific experiments? (…)
animal experimentationregulationsanimal cloningextinct species
Hafta 1016–22 Kas
Akademide mentorluk ve grup yönetimi
Mentoring in Academia • How to manage a research group? How not to manage a research group? (…) • What are the responsibilities of a mentor? ((…) • What are the responsibilities of mentee? (…) • What to do in case of a conflict? (…) • What is Wokeism? How wokeism will shape the future of science? (…) • Is graduate student unionization possible? (…)
mentor sorumluluklarımentee sorumluluklarıwokeismgraduate student unionization
Hafta 1123–29 Kas
Araştırma bütçesi ve fon dağılımı
Research Budget Allocation • What are the expectations of tax-payers? What are the expectations of funders? (…) • What are the expectations of scientists? ((…) • Do we really need to know if there is/was life on Mars? And other similar examples ((…) • Who does decide where the money goes? (…) • What are the regulations on how the money is spent? (…) • What is Diversity, Equity and Inclusion? How and why it will affect the future of science? (…)
research budgetfundersDiversity, Equity and Inclusionregulations
Hafta 1230 Kas – 6 Ara
İkinci ara sınav ve bilimsel yazarlık
Second mid-term / Scientific Authorship • Who is the first, who is the middle, who is the last? (…) • How to weigh the contribution in a given project? (…) • What is collaboration? Why shall scientists collaborate? How to manage collaboration? (…) • Notorious examples of predatory publishing and conferences (…) • How to differentiate good publishers/conferences from predatory ones? (…)
scientific authorshipcollaborationpredatory publishingauthor contribution
Hafta 137–13 Ara
Scientific misconduct: örnekler, nedenler, yaptırımlar
Scientific Misconduct What are the examples of scientific misconducts? (…) • What are the reasons that push scientist to commit a scientific misconduct? (…) • How to prevent scientific misconduct in the first place? (…) • What are the sanctions against scientific misconduct? (…)
scientific misconductnedenlerönlemeyaptırımlar
Hafta 1414–20 Ara
Global warming ve GMO tartışmaları
Environmental Concerns, Global Warming, GMOs • What is GMO? What are the techniques of GMO production? (…) • Is it healthy to consume GMO. What are the regulations? What are the environmental concerns regarding GMO? (…) • What are the GMOs in use? (…) • Who is under threat of global warming? (…) • What are the models of responsibility in environment friendly/sustainable life/economies? (…) • What are the costs and benefits (for environment friendly lifestyle)? What can individuals do? (…)
GMOglobal warmingsürdürülebilir yaşammaliyet-fayda

Değerlendirme 80% · 6 adım

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Quiz Q#1, Q#2, Q#3 15%
Midterm:Essay/written MT#1, MT#2 40%
Presentations PR 25%
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Bioethcis for Scientists
Bryat, Baggott la Velle
Searle (editors) · 2002 or newer editions

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