Académique Documents
Professionnel Documents
Culture Documents
For each of these terms- you should know what or who they are/were; why they are
relevant to the course; who the relevant actors were (in the case of events & cases); a
general sense of when they happened / lived; and the moral dilemmas they
addressed/created. Note: The exam can include any material that has been covered in
class (lectures & films), readings, and discussion sessions, which may not be included
here.
Issues/ Concepts
California Natural Death Act (NDA)
NAACP and Legal Defense Fund (LDF)
Thomas legislation
Debates about assisted dying
Doctrine of Double Effect
Assisted dying in the U.S. and Right-to-Die Movement
Crystallizing Events
Deterrence (both individual and general) and its efficacy (whether it works or not)
Historical connection between slavery and criminal justice system
Phillips County Massacre
Race, gender, and lynching in the U.S.
Trends in lynching and capital punishment over time (see graphs)
Racial differences and capital punishment
Science, technology, and capital punishment
Dehumanization of self and other
Rwandan conflict between Hutus and Tutsis
Genocide
My Lai Massacre in Vietnam
Euthanasia
Bybee Memos
Torture
13th Amendment
Death with dignity laws
Human Genome Project
“Us vs. Them”
Lethal injection
IQ tests and capital punishment
People/ Figures
Karen Ann Quinlan
Nancy Cruzan
Victor Frankl
Janet Adkins
Jack Kevorkian (“Dr. Death”)
Elizabeth Bouvia
Timothy Quill
Daniel Callahan
Harriet McBryde Johnson
Peter Singer
“Scottsboro Boys”
W.E.B. Du Bois
Jessie Daniel Ames
Emmett Till
Justice Harry Blackmun
Elizabeth Kübler-Ross
Terri Schaivo
Cicely Saunders
Dax Cowart
Craig Ewert
Brittany Maynard
Justice Clarence Thomas
Leonel Herrera
Chief Justice William Rehnquist
Joseph Saikewicz
Justice Arthur Goldberg
Governor George Ryan (Illinois)
Surgeon General Koop
Justice Antonin Scalia
Justice Douglass
Lord Dawson
Governor Richard Lamm (Colorado)
Sigmund Freud
Court Cases
Planned Parenthood v. Casey
Moore et al. v. Dempsey
Ruffin v. Commonwealth
Powell v. Alabama
Furman v. Georgia
Washington v. Glucksberg
Vacco v. Quill
William L. Maxwell case (Arkansas)
Videos
Video with Dax Cowart, “Please Let Me Die” [not available online]
Video with Craig Ewert, “The Suicide Tourist”
(http://video.pbs.org/video/1430431984/)
Frontline documentary “Remember My Lai”
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLc1zaZVCDM)
Frontline documentary “Ghosts of Rwanda”
(http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/ghosts/video/)
All videos shown in class and available in the lecture slides may be covered on the exam.
This is simply a short list to assist with the links that do not appear readily in the lecture
slides.