Ellen Moody's Teaching: Addendum to Syllabus for Spring: 302 Advanced Writing on the Natural Sciences and Technology, 302N12 and 302N13

Dr Ellen Moody

Short Talk 1: RFeynman, boy and young man: The Qualities that Make up the Good Scientist (SYJ, Parts 1 & 2, WDYC, Chapter 1): Steve Brust/Joanna Charlton
Short talk 2: RFeynman's criticisms of counterproductive uses and abuses of authority, particularly at Los Alamos (i.e., his stories about counterproductive uses of secrecy), but you may include stories exemplifying this theme from elsewhere in the book thus far (so from SYJ, Parts 2 & 3, especially "Los Alamos from Below" and "Safecracker Meets Safecracker"): Lansana Rogers/Chris Tuck
Short Talk 3: RFeynman's ideas on what is real scientific learning: what ought to go on in a classroom, be in a book &c (e.g.,"O Americano Outre Vez" and "Judging Books by Their Covers" in SYJ and relevant Letters in WDYC): Matthew Ghen/Leticia Cuevas

Short Talk 4: RFeynman's Adventures in Areas Outside Physics: Biology, Art, Music and Anthropology ("A Map of the Cat", Always Trying to Escape", "But Is It Art?"; "O Americano Outra Vez!," "Bringing Culture to the Physicists", "Found Out in Paris", "Altered States" in SYJ, and "It's as Simple as One, Two, Three " and relevant "Letters" in WDYC): Ashleigh Byrne/Brandon Cypress
Short Talk 5: RFeynman's Investigations into the Conscious and Unconscious Mind and Antagonisms towards Modern Psychiatrists and Psychology ("Mee", "Always Trying to Escape", "Uncle Sam Doesn't Need You!", "Altered States" from SYJ and "It's as Simple as One Two Three" from WDYC): Aymel Mohammed/Philip Weidig
Short Talk 6: Mr Feynman Goes to Washington: Why some NASA Shuttle officials are driven to delude themselves and mislead the public ("Mr Feynman Goes to Washington" and "Appendix F" in WDYC, pp. 113-227): Matthew Gledhill/Samuel Lalego

Short Talk 7: A World of Pseudo- and Corrupt Science and the Value of Science (Feynman's "Cargo Cult Learning" and "The Value of Science," SYJ, pp. 338-46, WDYC, pp. 239-48): Jamie Hizer/_____________________
Short Talk 8: The Difficult Settling In and Beginning to Study (Goodall, In the Shadow Of ManChapters 1-4, "Beginnings" through "Camp Life": Kyrolles Basta/Carie Hill
Short Talk 9: On Her Own: First successes, sex life of Flo, Her Family, the Feeding Stations (In the Shadow of Man, Chapter 5-9, "The Rains" through "Flo and Her Family"): ________________________/__________________________

Short Talk 10: The study widens out: Hierarchies, Infancy, childhood of champanzees, the Research Center emerges (In the Shadow of Man, Chapters 10-13: "The Hierarchy" through "The Child"): Karl Kramer/Sushant Kumar
Short Talk 11: Chimpanzee adolescence, adulthood. death, interspecies interaction (In the Shadow of Man, Chapters 14-17) "The Adolescent" through "Death"): Stephanie Tuck/Stephen Jefferson
Short Talk 12: Chimpanzee mothers and children, the effect of people on the chimpanzee worlds, Gombe, 1970 (In the Shadow of Man, Chapters 18-21, "Mother and Child" through "Family Postscript"): Marisol Merino/________________________

Wednesday class is cancelled. On Tuesday I will screen Haines and Caswell's The Doctor. Students from Tuesday class expected to be there; students from Wednesday class invited to come.

Short Talk 13: Early history of modern people: Olson, Mapping Human History, "The African Diaspora" and "Encounters with the Other" (Chs 3-4, pp. 54-89): Yun Choi/Youssef Alhussain
Short Talk 14: Development of agriculture and anatomically modern people spread across the globe: Mapping Human History, "Agriculture, Civilization and the Emergence of Ethnicity" and "The Great Migration" (Chs 5 & 7, pp. 90-105, 124-36): Alice Hatfield/Craig Rossett
Short Talk 15: Drug Companies: Abroad and in the US (from online course materials, Marcia Angell, "The Body Hunters" and "Your Dangerous Drugstore"): Eva Bosco/Regine DeGuzman

Short talk 16: The importance of climate and geography and puzzling questions: Mapping Human History, Who are the Europeans" and "The Settlement of the Americas" (Chs 9 & 11, pp. 158- 74, 194-207): Reed Hopwood/Neha Sharma
Short Talk 17: The Complicated Politics of Tracing Our Real Histories: Mapping Human History, "Sprung from a Common Source," "The Burden of Knowledge," "The End of Race" (pp. 158-74, 207-238): Gary Pearce/Amandeep Chahil
The class watches In Search of a First Language (about one hour).

Short Talk 19: Short Talk 19: Systems gone rotten; problems with values (online course materials, Marcia Angell, "Drug Companies and Doctors: A Story of Corruption", New York Review of Books, 56:1(January 15, 2009); Atul Gawande, "Hellhole" an essay on medical and human rights about the torture of solitary confinement, The New Yorker, March 30, 2009): Christian Gibbons/Alexander Schoof
Short Talk 20: The Problem of Having to Practice and Lack of Unbiased Review Boards and Presence of Bad Doctors (Gawande, Complications, Part I, "Education of the Knife," "When Doctors Makes Mistakes," "When Good Doctors Go Bad" from Gawande's Complications): Katherine Fielding/William Monks

Short talk 21: False and true ideas about what makes a good doctor (Complications, Part I, "The Computer and the Hernia Factory" and (online materials), The Bell Curve: What happens when patients find out how good their doctors really are?": Bryan Freedman/Sukhwinder Singh
Short talk 22: How money directly affects what is done ("Piecework: Medicine's Money Problem", "Sick and Twisted", "The Way We Age Now"): Ayele Hargework/Raymond Dean
Short Talk 23: Women's Health Care and cosmetic surgery (Complications, "The Crimson Tide," "The Score: How childbirth went industrial", "The Man who couldn't stop eating"): Ashleigh Byrne/Nathaniel Osteguin

Short Talk 24: The uncertainties of medicine and how this affects patient autonomy (from Complications, "The Pain Perplex," "Final Cut" and "Whose Body is it, anyway?") Rabia Mian/Saba Amin. If anyone does take Short Talk 25 in the Tuesday class it will be given on May 4th (see below)
The class watches as much of Nichols and Thompson's Wit as time permits.

The class finishes watching Nichols and Thompson's Wit .
Short Talk 25: The Neglect of Vivian Bearing and the Biter Bit (Jack McKee) (from the films, Wit and The Doctor: ________________________/Jakeline Merino

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