Lessons on thinking about Bioethics with high school students
Naoki Shiraishi
Tokyo metropolitan Sumidagawa high school (biology)
Class flowsome basic background knowledge on the blackboard
some basic background knowledge on the blackboard
VTR about 35 minutes
10 min.breakQuestions
Watch 2nd half
Opinion time
10min.
Report as soon as possible(10min)
Curriculum1 Informed choice, Brain death 13 medicine in brain
2 organ transplantation 14, 15 Drug dependency
3 human cloning 16 Current problems
4 In vitro fertilization 17Abortion, Regenerative Medicine, Genetic Diagnosis,
5 AID 18 human Body business
6 Multiple personalities 19 Abortion
7, Prenatal diagnosis 20 Gene diagnoses
8,9,10Barrier-Free 21 movie “Awakenings”
11 The vegetative state 22 Another Cloning technology
12 ALS conclusion
Brain death-What is living? -.
After watching the video "Life and transplantation". Please fill in the gaps:
1 Heart death① ( ) stops.② ( ) breath isn't made③ ( ) is wide open (It doesn't close even if light is shone). The appearance of the medical equipment ( ) appearance: (① and ②are recovered)
2 Brain death (Five Judgment standards) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( ) ( )
These five continue for more than ( ) hours
3 Do you think that the brain death is the death of the person? 1 When you become brain dead YES NO* 1 2 In the case where the person (e.g. family) who is important to you becomes brain dead ① When the very person admits brain death as one’s death YES NO* 2 ② When the will of the very person is unknown YES NO* 3
4 Your impression (How do you think about deciding brain death by the law as the death of the person)?
Your name
brain death of self
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“Hensa-chi” :popular high school ranking in Japan
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Acceptance of brain death(Y) & Hensa-chi(X)of 3 high schools
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2001.7.2体 外 受 精 と 親 子 関 係 ( ) に 当 て は ま る 言 葉 は な ん で し ょ う ?( ) ( )( ) ( )BANK BANK① ② ③ ④
donor( ⑤ )
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組 番 氏 名
M A M A P A P A? ?M A M A P A P A? ?
Fill in the gaps, and think who is parents. What is Parents?
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