"Health" & "Health Care"

What defines health?  We've started this discussion in class.  How ought it to be refined?

After you've discussed that, start an exploration about what a "health care" system ought to cover.  Is health care like buying a car?  Or more like a collective community responsibility to its members, like education or having police, fire, emergency workers?  What kind of a right is health care?

These are both parts of your first exam question.

Health Care Elsewhere

What did you find most surprising about your assigned country?  About the data collected by the class? 

How does this impact your definition of health?  Of health care?

The Diving Bell & The Butterfly

What was your first reaction to the film?  What did you think when it finished?

Identify some ways that the film relates to class.

Does the film change your mind about anything related to end-of-life decisions, the provision of health care, individual choice, responsibility of health care providers?

Current

*new*  Patenting Genes - U.S. Supreme Court Case
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/15/business/as-court-considers-gene-patents-case-may-overlook-relevant-issues.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130415&_r=0

 more on the federal Brain project
http://chronicle.com/article/Obama-Kicks-Off-100-Million/138241/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

video on dying "Can We Live Forever?"
From Lauren: I saw this video in my psychology of aging class.  Its called can we live forever?  I think it relates quite well to class maybe we can watch it. http://m.video.pbs.org/video/1754457671/

Multiculturalism

TED Talk about female circumcision
http://www.ted.com/talks/kakenya_ntaiya_a_girl_who_demanded_school.html?utm_source=email&source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=ios-share

Medicine & the Arts

"Love Alone," a new play at the Trinity Rep in Providence, R.I., breaks the mold of the medical melodrama in its portrayal of the consequences of a devastating medical mistake. http://nyti.ms/KiMqPJ

Genetics

*new* 9April13 Elizabeth Blackburn molecular biologist worked on teleomeres, has new medical test
 http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/09/science/elizabeth-blackburn-molecular-biologist-charts-her-own-course.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130409&_r=0

1April13  Genetics & Cancer (story in al-Jazeera)
http://m.aljazeera.com/story/201332814458981700
 
1April13 Gene Therapy for sight, smell, hearing, etc.
http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/34778/title/Sensing-Gene-Therapy/

20Mar13 Genetic Therapy Show Promise for Acute Leukemia
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/21/health/altered-t-cell-therapy-shows-promise-for-acute-leukemia.html?_r=0&hp=&adxnnl=1&adxnnlx=1363814668-O+Rsx6N6JC3dOyYLSzE44Q

13Mar13 NOVA's Cracking Your Genetic Code (video we watched in class)
http://video.pbs.org/video/2215641935/

13Mar13 How Well Do You Want to Know Your DNA? | PBS NewsHour

Coincidentally to showing NOVA's "Cracking Your Genetic Code" on 12March, was a story on tonight's NewsHour also about genetics & personal medicine.
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2013/03/if-your-genes-revealed-you-were-likely-to-get-a-disease-would-you-want-to-know.html

Hemophilia B is the first well-known disease to appear treatable by gene therapy, a technique with a 20-year record of almost unbroken failure. http://nyti.ms/uI3yx7

Knome’s New Machine to Aid Labs in Genomic Analysis - NYTimes.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/03/business/knomes-new-machine-to-aid-labs-in-genomic-analysis.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20130203

Human Genome Project story
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/body/cracking-the-code-of-life.html