Failure and Medical Advancement
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Infectious Diseases division chief and Vaccine Education Center director Dr. Paul Offit spoke about the risks associated with medical innovation. He was interviewed by Johns Hopkins University epidemiologist Dr. Emily Gurley.
Description
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia Infectious Diseases division chief and Vaccine Education Center director Dr. Paul Offit spoke about the risks associated with medical innovation. He was interviewed by Johns Hopkins University epidemiologist Dr. Emily Gurley.
Bell Ringer Assignment
- What does Dr. Emily Gurley say about the relationship between scientific contributions and morals?
- How does Dr. Paul Offit say "truth" emerges from scientific studies?
- Why does Offit say the scientific process is "flawed?"
- Based on the clip, what happened to Jesse Gelsinger?
- What did Gelsinger's death lead to? How and why?
Additional Resources
Participants
Vocabulary
- Adenovirus
- Bacterial Sepsis
- Blood Pressure
- Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-cell Therapy
- Clinical Study
- Enzyme
- Fragility
- Gene Therapy
- Humanity
- Legislate
- Leukemia
- Liver
- Monoclonal Antibody
- Moral
- Protein
- Vaccine
- Vignette