Slides from a workshop on taking recent news stories and developing them into case studies for teaching about ethical aspects of developments in biology and medicine. We used an audit tool derived from the standard set of questions used on the excellent NHS Choices "Behind the Headlines" site.

1. Developing Case Studies
for Bioethics
HUBS Spring Meeting 2017
Dr Chris Willmott
Dept of Molecular
and Cell Biology
University of Leicester
cjrw2@le.ac.uk
Prof John Bryant
Professor Emeritus
Biosciences
University of Exeter
J.A.Bryant@exeter.ac.uk

2. • Real v Fictional?
Real: News clips, News websites
Fictional: Can “tidy up” &/or seed specific points
Work best when based on real cases
• Formats?
- longer scenarios?
- open ended v structured v standard tool?
Case studies
http://tinyurl.com/n5tvz6f

3. - Where did the story
come from?
- What kind of research
was this?
- What did the research
involve?
- What were the basic
results?
- How did the researchers
interpret the results?
- Conclusion
Conducting Ethical Audit
http://www.nhs.uk/news

4. - Where did the story come from?
- What is the underlying science in the story?
- What are the potential ethical implications of
this development?
- What ethical arguments could be made for or
against this development?
- How does this relate to our existing
undergraduate programme?
- How could this relate to our undergraduate
programme?
Conducting Ethical Audit

5. News stories
http://tinyurl.com/HUBSbee17
http://tinyurl.com/HUBSbrain17
http://tinyurl.com/HUBSkidney17
http://tinyurl.com/HUBSwomb17
http://tinyurl.com/HUBShead17

6. - Where did the story come from?
- What is the underlying science in the story?
- What are the potential ethical implications of this development?
- What ethical arguments could be made for or against this development?
- How does this relate to our existing undergraduate programme?
- How could this relate to our undergraduate programme?
Conducting Ethical Audit
http://tinyurl.com/HUBSbee17
http://tinyurl.com/HUBSbrain17
http://tinyurl.com/HUBSkidney17
http://tinyurl.com/HUBSwomb17 http://tinyurl.com/HUBShead17

7. - Where did the story come from?
- What is the underlying science in the story?
- What are the potential ethical implications of this development?
- What ethical arguments could be made for or against this development?
- How does this relate to our existing undergraduate programme?
- How could this relate to our undergraduate programme?
Artificial womb
http://tinyurl.com/HUBSwomb17

8. - Where did the story come from?
- What is the underlying science in the story?
- What are the potential ethical implications of this development?
- What ethical arguments could be made for or against this development?
- How does this relate to our existing undergraduate programme?
- How could this relate to our undergraduate programme?
Bumblebee
http://tinyurl.com/HUBSbee17

9. - Where did the story come from?
- What is the underlying science in the story?
- What are the potential ethical implications of this development?
- What ethical arguments could be made for or against this development?
- How does this relate to our existing undergraduate programme?
- How could this relate to our undergraduate programme?
Head transplant
http://tinyurl.com/HUBShead17

10. - Where did the story come from?
- What is the underlying science in the story?
- What are the potential ethical implications of this development?
- What ethical arguments could be made for or against this development?
- How does this relate to our existing undergraduate programme?
- How could this relate to our undergraduate programme?
Mind hacking
http://tinyurl.com/HUBSbrain17

11. - Where did the story come from?
- What is the underlying science in the story?
- What are the potential ethical implications of this development?
- What ethical arguments could be made for or against this development?
- How does this relate to our existing undergraduate programme?
- How could this relate to our undergraduate programme?
Crowd-sourced kidney
http://tinyurl.com/HUBSkidney17

12. Any Questions?
E-mail: cjrw2@le.ac.uk
Twitter: cjrw
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Blogs: www.bioethicsbytes.wordpress.com
www.biologyonthebox.wordpress.com
www.biosciencecareers.wordpress.com
www.lefthandedbiochemist.wordpress.com