Summer Reading 2006 - My Sister's Keeper

The Duke Summer Reading Program is designed to give incoming students a shared intellectual experience with other members of their class. During Orientation Welcome Week, First-Year Advisory Counselors (FACs) will facilitate a discussion with first-year students. Other conversations and events related to the reading will take place throughout the fall semester.

This summer's reading is My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult.

Research and Discussion Guides
Whether to find term paper or discussion topics, these guides can be used to relate the themes in My Sister’s Keeper to current research and practice in the disciplines. Most of these topics overlap with one another-- law with ethics, economics with medical research, social work with women’s roles— offering any number of opportunities for additional discovery. A working bibliography is provided for each subject, as well as a section for students to “Jumpstart Your Research”.

• Law: Informed consent and medical decision making.
• • What are the legal and ethical precedents for Anna’s court case?
    

• Economics: How do economics impact transplant surgery?
• • Globalization and the organ market, fertility tourism and organ banks.
    

Web sites for previous years' readings:

• 2005 - The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini