October 1st

**Reminder: BEGIN Reading DOUBLE HELIX**
Genetics and the National Interest: Early Eugenic Policies
Discuss Jennings; Snyder and Herrnstein

October 3rd

Begin unit:
The Human Genome Project: History, Politics, and Ethics
The Emergence of Molecular Biology c. WW II
Mini-Lecture and Discuss Keller (HANDOUT)

October 8th

Biography as History: The Double Helix(1968)
Discuss BOOK: Watson (entire) [With a focus on pp. 24-52, 83-115, 127-131]

October 10th

**First class paper due**
Watch FILM: Double Helix (Life Story) (BBC, 1987)
Background reading: Franklin article in reader

October 15th

October Study Day -- no class

October 17th

History of HGP Part One --What is the HGP and how did it start?
Discuss Cook-Deegan, Gilbert, HGP congressional transcripts (HANDOUT)

October 22nd

History of HGP Part Two -- Evaluating the HGP in process
Discuss Proctor, and ELSI Mission Statement (and "What is ELSI?" with New Goals 1998-2003)

October 24th

HGP Now Part One - The HGP and Diversity
Discuss Rothman; Wade; and
NOTE CHANGE -- On-Line articles but NOT "Salopek articles; Dodson and Williamson articles" (*Only because I can not get these electronic durable links to work on ProQuest*)

Instead -- please read the following series of on-line articles about the HGDP:

Connor, editorial in The Independent (1998)
Becker, on Chinese and African origins in South China Morning Post (1999)
Foubister, on American Indian views of the HGDP (2000)

October 29th

Where is the HGP today? The Meaning of Genetic Mapping
Readings to be presented by students: each student responsible for bringing one article on the current state of the HGP (dated 2000 or 2001, at least 2 pages long!)

October 31st

Begin unit:
Living in the Genetic Information Age
Genetic Understandings of Health: Genetic Diseases
Discuss excerpts from Troubled Helix
Hubbard Ch 5-6; and Weiss (HANDOUT)

November 5th

Prenatal Screening: Individual Choice or Public Health Measure?
Discuss Lippman

November 7th

Begin unit:
Behavioral and Evolutionary Genetics: A New Biological Determinism?
Discuss Wilson (HANDOUTS)

November 12th

Genes and Personality: Recent Genetic Studies, including Sexuality and Agression
Discuss BOOKS --Hamer and Copeland intro, chs 1-5

November 14th

Critiques of Behavioral Genetics
Discuss Jacobs et. al; Peters

November 19th

**Second class paper due**

Begin unit: Biotechnology and Science Policy: Who Controls the Use of Genes - and how?
Mini-Lecture and Video: The Cambridge Recombinant DNA Controversy

November 21st

Thanksgiving Break -- no class

November 26th

Genetic Information: Issues of Privacy and Discrimination
Discuss BOOK --Hubbard and Wald chapters 10 and 11; Dedman, and
On-Line Articles:
Dawkins
Buckley

November 28th

Genetic Counseling: A First Person Perspective
Discuss Michie and Marteau, Biesecker and Marteau
**Guest Speaker**
Caroline Lieber (Director, Program in Human Genetics, SLC)

December 3rd

Genes for Sale, Part I: Humanity's Genome(s)
Discuss Hubbard chapter 9; Belkins; Peters (from Playing God), Specter

December 5th

Genes for Sale, Part II: Agricultural and Ecological Biotechnology
Discuss Kevles; Pollan; Crouch; and
On-line articles:
Mann
McBride

December 10th

**REMINDER: Sign up for Conference Work Presentation Next Week**

Begin Unit:
New Technologies of Human Genetic Manipulation: Brave New World?
Gene Therapy
Discuss Lyon and Gorner (Class Handout); Winerip; Feb 2000 gene therapy hearing transcripts (Read, especially, the Opening Statements by Frist and Kennedy -- and any of the other statements you have time for!)

December 12th

Cloning and beyond
Discuss Silver and recent media articles - stem cells research and cloning etc.

December 17th

Conference Work Presentations

December 19th

Conference Work Presentations