"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/