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This activity asks students to consider the possible threat of a bioterrorist attack from the intersection of scientific and ethical points of view. Students consider a variety of responses using risk-benefit and cost-benefit analyses. They attempt to answer questions as posed in politics and the media and to formulate new questions in response to the needs of culture, economics, politics and history.
By the completion of this activity students will be able to:
- Identify potential preventions and treatments
for botulism.
- Comprehend the molecular mechanisms of immunity.
- Understand the drug development process.
- Appreciate the ethical concerns related to vaccination
benefits and risks.
- Recognize the compromises that often accompany
public health measures.
- Identify national and international bioweapons
regulations.
- Communicate their ideas in a more clear and cogent manner.
This Activity contains two assignments for instructors
to choose between or combine and a set of Teaching
Notes. In Assignment
1, the dilemma designed to stimulate student interest
is presented as a brief set of facts and questions
that are tackled within one or two class periods.
Assignment 2 is a
more extended and advanced exercise in which students
consider the bioterror threat, conduct research outside
of class and write a proposal for dealing with the
threat.
Assignment 1: Short In-Class Dilemma
Assignment
2: Extended Research Proposal
Teaching Notes
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