Author: Student
Company: UWO

April 2, 2002
Biotechnology: Frankenstein
Next two classes
•	Thursday April 4: 
	Course evaluations
•	PLEASE BE ON TIME
•	Tuesday April 9:  
	Guest speaker — Prof. David Castle (University of Guelph)
Classroom etiquette
•	If you cannot respect the interests of other students in hearing and participating in the class discussion, you will be asked to leave.  This is your warning.
Essays
Bibiograph information for definitions:

The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, ed. Robert Audi.  1995.  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

•	Positive and Negative Freedom: Gerald Dworkin
•	Beauty:Susan L. Feagin
•	Rights: Carl Wellman
Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus
•	Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
•	1816 story contest at Byron’s house
Frankenstein exhibit
•	U.S. National Library of Medicine
•	http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/frankenstein/frankhome.html
What’s the difference?
Other biotech concerns:
•	Genetically engineered foods and drugs
•	Geneticallly selected babies
•	Affects on the environment from genetically engineered organisms
•	Science used for discrimination
Who decides what’s acceptable?
Tests
•	Overall excellent performance: 73% average
•	Comments/marks all critical [X]to show you how to improve content/efficiency of answer
•	General problems: 
•	Sentences/phrases that make no sense [?]
•	Incomplete answers
•	Irrelevant tangents/repetition
•	More feedback?  Make an appointment / drop by office hours. 
•	Re-evaluation?  Put concerns in writing and resubmit paper.  (Evaluation may decrease.)