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Star Trek: The Next Generation®: ETHICS order from Amazon
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Content Areas: Medical ethics, medical technology, physiology, risk assessment.

 Grade Levels: 5-8, 9-12

 National Science Content Standards:

C = Life Science
E = Science and Technology
F = Science in Personal and Social Perspectives

Synopsis:

After an accident injuring his spine, Whorf must decide on whether to risk experimental surgery or survive with limited mobility. Emotionally unable to accept limited mobility, he chooses the experimental surgery. Only his alien physiology of redundant systems allows him to survive the surgery.

 Good Science: The descriptions of spine structure and functions are correct. The questions of procedures for medical experimentation discussed in the film are often discussed among professionals today.

 Bad Science: There is no known way for a matter transporter system to work. There is no known way to travel or communicate faster than light. It is not currently possible to transplant spines.

 Media Center Extension:

bulletCoordinate a class research project in which groups learn about science, ethics, and public policy. Topics could include genetic profiling, cloning, animal research, euthanasia, and stem cell research.

Web Resources:

bulletNational Science Foundation: www.nsf.gov
bulletNational Institute of Health (NIH): www.nih.gov
bulletCodes of Ethics Online: http://www.iit.edu/departments/csep/PublicWWW/codes/

 

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