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1Activity 2: Introducing Max’s Thyroid Cancer Case—What Is the Ethical Question?Estimated Time: 5–10 minutesIntroduce Max’s case. Explain that genetic tests yield different kinds of informationand that medical intervention is possible in response to some genetic tests butnot others.Using an overhead projector, display only Part I of Master 4.3. Read Part I aloud, andask students to pose ethical questions about it. Then, display and read aloud Part II.Help students connect Max’s situation to the envelope activity. Ask them to air theirpreliminary views to a partner.Page 4-11, Step 1Page 4-11, Steps 2–3Page 4-12, Steps 4–52Activity 3: Gathering Relevant Facts and ConceptsEstimated Time: 15 minutesRemind students that gathering relevant facts is always one of the first thingsbioethicists do as they contemplate an ethical question.Give each student a copy of Master 4.4, and display the transparency. Tellstudents to take five minutes to read it in pairs and underline the mostimportant information.Page 4-12, Step 1Page 4-12, Step 23Remind students that they need understand all relevant information beforecontinuing with the ethical question. Ask students for new, relevant questions,and assign individuals to research the answers.Page 4-13, Step 3Give each student a copy of Master 4.5. Read it aloud, or assign it as homework.Page 4-14, Step 44Give each student a copy of Master 4.6. Ask them to complete it in classor as homework.Closure: Remind students that they must understand the key concepts (Master 4.5)and the key facts (Master 4.6) really well.Homework: Reread Master 4.5 and answer the questions on Master 4.6. Somestudents may also be researching answers to questions from Step 3.Page 4-15, Step 5Page 4-15Page 4-155Involves copying a masterInvolves making a transparencyModule 4 4-176