Ryan Ravanpak
PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
BA, University of California, Berkeley
Below you can find teaching materials I have created for Ethics of Medicine at Phillips Academy, Andover, as well as Biomedical Ethics at MIT. The latter course is run in conjunction with the MIT Department of Science, Technology, and Society. Please note that these teaching materials are not meant to be exhaustive of the content taught week-by-week.
Syllabus #1 | Ethics in Medicine - PHR 532
Syllabus #2 | Biomedical Ethics - 24.06J | STS 006J
Why Study Bioethics? Sample Case Studies
General Principles of Argumentation in Philosophy
Informed Consent (Sex, Lies, Consent)
Abortion Rights and Contraception Part 1 (A Defense of Abortion)
Abortion Rights and Contraception Part 2 (Moral Personhood) | Writing Philosophy
The Ethics of Enhancement (The Case Against Perfection)
Disability Rights (Valuing Disability, Causing Disability)
The Ethics of Clinical Trials (Debate)
Health as a Public Good Part I (Moral Limits of (Kidney) Markets)