Soc 427 Health and Illness Discussion 1

Responses must be 300 words each and use in-text citation

Required response from Prompt 1: Choose A or B

1. The purpose of this exercise is to explore different ways of
   finding material on policies for dealing with AIDS in elementary
   schools.
   • Go to Google.com, and search for “AIDS in elementary schools.”
     What types of materials do you find? Research reports? Policy
     statements? Personal essays?
   • Now use Google to go to PubMed, the National Library of
     Medicine’s database of scholarly articles. Then, search again for “AIDS
     in elementary schools.” How does the type of information you get from
     PubMed differ from the type of information you found using Google?
   • Go to PubMed again, but this time search for “HIV in elementary
     schools” rather than “AIDS in elementary schools.” How does this affect
     your results?

   Prompt 2

2. You have one kidney available that biologically matches all the
   following people. The one who receives the kidney will gain a longer
   life and better quality of life; the rest will die soon. Which one would
   you give it to? How would you justify your decision? What moral and
   social values or principles underlie your decision?
   • Jill, 23 years old, white, is a former drug addict and single
     mother. She was taking classes at a community college, but had to quit
     to go on dialysis. She is now on welfare, with Medicaid paying all her
     medical expenses.
   • John, 55 years old, white, married with no children. He is a
     successful business executive who owns his own company. He has partial
     health insurance and will probably go bankrupt soon because of medical
     bills.
   • Bob, 30 years old, HIV-infected, white, architect. He has no health insurance. Single, no children.
   • David, 25 years old, single with no children, African-American.
     He is trying to obtain a graduate degree in history while coping with
     physical problems caused by kidney failure. He has no health
     insurance.
   • Martha, 40 years old, homemaker and mother of two,
     African-American, married to a police officer. Her insurance will pay
     all costs.