IGERT Courses
Fall 2006
Biomechanics Discussion Group
Tuesdays at 5:30 p.m.
Maxwell-Dworkin, Room 221
This semester's focus will continue with ethics and science. Readings, speakers, and films listed below.
Books:
Articles/Chapters:
Kevles, D.J. (1998). Bad for Science. In The Baltimore Case: A Trial of Politics, Science and Character. W.W. Norton & Company, New York. pp. 246-265.
Online: (cut and paste link)
NY Times article on the Hwang Woo-Suk South Korean stem cell scandal:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9B07E2DD1630F935A25751C1A9639C8B63&fta=y
An associated article about scientific fraud:
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/20/science/20rese.html?ex=1159329600&en=5f3950cb4453b859&ei=5070
Schon (Bell Labs) scientific fraud case from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Hendrik_Sch%C3%B6n
Spring 2006
Biomechanics Discussion Group
Mondays at 5:30 p.m.
Maxwell-Dworkin, Room 221
This semester's focus has been on ethics and science. Readings, speakers, and films listed below.
Books:
The Republican War on Scienc, by Chris Mooney
Practical Ethics, by Peter Singer
Hitler's Scientists : Science, War, and the Devil's Pact, by John Cornwell
The Mismeasure of Man, by Stephen Jay Gould
Articles:
David Baltimore, “Don’t Impede Medical Progress,” Wall Street Journal, July 30, 2001.
Robert P. George, “Don’t Destroy Human Life,” Wall Street Journal, July 30, 2001.
President George W. Bush, “Address to the Nation,” August 9, 2001, and “Stem Cell Science and the Preservation of Life,” New York Times, August 10, 2001. (reprinted in Kristol and Cohen, eds., The Future is Now, pp. 306-313)
Michael Sandel, “Embryo Ethics: The Moral Logic of Stem Cell Research,” New England Journal of Medicine, July 15, 2004.
Robert George and Patrick Lee, “The Embryo Question: Acorns and Embryos,” The New Atlantis, Fall 2004/Winter 2005.
Richard Doerflinger, The Ethics of Funding Embryonic Stem Cell Research: A Catholic Viewpoint,” Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, vol. 9, no. 2 (June, 1999).
Robert George and Alfonso Gomez-Lobo, “The Moral Status of the Human Embryo,” Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, Spring 2005.
Michael J. Sandel, “The Ethical Implications of Human Cloning,” Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, Spring 2005.
William Fitzpatrick, “Surplus Embryos, Nonreproductive Cloning, and the Intend/Forsee Distinction,” Hastings Center Report, vol. 33, May-June 2003.
Jonathan Shaw, “Debating the Moral Status of the Embryo,” Harvard Magazine, July-August, 2004.
Jonathan Shaw, “Stem Cell Science: When Medicine Meets Moral Philosophy,” Harvard Magazine, July-August 2004.
Films:
"Flock of Dodos: The Evolution-Intelligent Design Circus," by Randy Olson
"Stanford Prison Experiment," by Philip G. Zimbardo
"Obedience," by Stanley Milgram
Spring 2005
Biomechanics Discussion Group
Thursdays at 12:00 p.m.
60 Oxford Street, Room 330
List of Speakers
Jacques Dumais, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Applications of continuum mechanics to the growth and morphogenesis of plants
Ning Wang, School of Public Health
Stress propagation to the cytoskeleton and the nucleus
Jeff Fredberg, School of Public Health
The living cytoskeleton, slow dynamics, and glassy behavior
Zhigang Suo, DEAS
The ductility of nacre
Howard Berg, Department of Cellular and Molecular Biology
Some physics that E. coli knows
Andy Biewener, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Muscle dynamics: design for economy versus power
George Lauder, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Fishes, submarines, and robots: moving about in the underwater world
Missy Holbrook, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Masters of microfluidics: water transport in vascular plants
Paul Moorcroft, Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Vegetation mechanics and dynamics Rob Howe, DEAS
To be announced. Jim Rice, DEAS
Studies in poroelasticity, friction and fracture
Dave Weitz, DEAS
Mechanics of biopolymer networks
May 5: Radcliffe Symposium: Designing Biology
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