Poli 318: DEATH IN AMERICA

An ethics and public policy case-based seminar that proceeds from the premise that the patterned mal-distribution of mortality rates is a conspicuous consequence and hence robust measure of social injustice. Four distinct cases are addressed from philosophical, ethical and policy perspectives: health-care, criminal justice, oil and petroleum, and military service.

Pedagogy includes discussion, exams, digital field-work, and service-learning.

Fulfills AR general education requirement.

SYLLABUS

Uninsured in America: life and death in the land of opportunity (2005) Susan Sered and Rushika Fernandopulle			The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (2010) Michelle Alexander
Lives Per Gallon: The True Cost of Our Oil Addiction (2006) Terry Tamminen			The Casualty Gap: The Causes and Consequences of American Wartime Inequalities (2010) Douglas L. Kriner and Francis X. Shen