Core Texts
Frontline
Video
"The Belmont Report: Basic Ethical Principles and their Application"
US Department of Health and Human Services
Video
"The Public Good Versus Individual Freedom"
Michael Gerson
Article
"Freedom vs. Security: Freedom at Any Cost?"
Harry Shearer and Nigel Warburton
Video
Harry Shearer and Nigel Warburton
Video
"What Exactly Is the Common Good?"
Duquesne University
Video
"The Philosophy of Liberty"
Ken Schoolhand
Video
"Hippocratic Oath / Physician's Creed"
BurnFree Global
Video
The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Article
Optional Texts
Website
"Parents Deserve to Have a Choice about Vaccination"
Jennifer Margulis
Nonfiction Essay
Harry Shearer and Nigel Warburton
Video
"Defying Parents, A Teen Decides to Get Vaccinated"
Amanda Morris and Scott Simon
Website
Ross D. Silverman and Kristin S. Hendrix
Website
"ACLU Statement: SB 277, California Vaccination Bill"
Don Ohadike
Website
"Jacobson v. Massachusetts, 197 U.S. 11 (1905)"
Justice John Marshall Harlan
Website
Spanish Texts