1. How was the pursuit of longevity related to the maintenance of health in early modern medicine?

2. Was early modern disease more than an imbalance of humors?

3. Drawing on examples of new theories and/or practices, discuss how early modern anatomists expanded knowledge of the human body.

4. "The idea that the post-Revolutionary Paris Clinical School represents the 'birth' of modern medicine is a misleading exaggeration." Do you agree?

5. "The history of modern medicine is a history of laboratories." Discuss, using examples from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

6. How have concepts of public health and concepts of disease shaped one another since the early nineteenth century?

7. Is the intentional killing of terminally-ill patients ever ethically acceptable?

8. "Ensuring subjects' informed consent to research is important in theory, but impossible in practice." Discuss.

9. Is the global research agenda unjust or merely unfortunate?

10. Which principles should guide the distribution of scarce medical resources?

11. What lessons should we draw from past social medicine and eugenic practices for the contemporary use of reproductive technologies?

12. How ought we respond to the non-identity problem?

13. Can scientific justification be "value-free"? Does this matter?

14. Paul Bloom argues that "if you want to be good and do good, empathy is a poor guide". Martin Hoffman argues that empathy is the "bedrock of morality". Can the science of empathy resolve their dispute?

15. Are brain images epistemically privileged in any way?