What is the format of the HSBCP Curriculum?
A. The HSBCP Curriculum uses case studies and discussion questions to introduce bioethics themes and issues into the secondary school classroom. Currently, the Curriculum consists of four units, each containing between 5 and 8 case studies, with associated teacher preparation topics, teaching aims, discussion questions, suggestions for further research, and a reading list. The four units cover the topics of neonatal ethics, organ transplantation, research on human beings, and eugenics. Other units are planned. The cases can be used singly or in groups and can be introduced into already existing classes or serve as the core for a new class on bioethics. At present, the HSBCP Curriculum is being made available only in workshop settings. Efforts are in the planning stages to develop a pilot unit that may be distributed to interested teachers for testing in their school settings. Please contact Laura Bishop, Ph.D. if you would like to apply to pilot test this bioethics unit. In the interim
