Research for Courtney

Goodfellow, John A., ed. Understanding Medical Research : The Studies That Shaped Medicine. Hoboken, NJ, USA: John Wiley & Sons, 2012. ProQuest ebrary. Web. 22 February 2016.

This book could be helpful as you try to understand Jason and his ambition.  It is about Jason’s profession of medical research and how we can understand it.

Institute of Medicine. Working Together: We Can Help People Get Good Care When They Are Dying. Washington, DC, USA: National Academies Press, 2000. ProQuest ebrary. Web. 22 February 2016.

I thought this could be a helpful resource in evaluating both Vivian and Jason who you compare in your essay.  This book talks about how hospitals should deal with people that are dying. 

King, Casey. Ambition, a History: From Vice to Virtue. Print.

This book isn’t available online but they have it at the library.  I thought it could be helpful because you discuss ambition and especially the ambition of the scholars quite a bit in your essay.  This book examines the history of ambition. 

"Margaret Edson." Contemporary Authors Online. Detroit: Gale, 2007. Contemporary Authors Online. Web. 22 Feb. 2016.

This is a short biography about the author of the play Margaret Edson.  It gives some good insight into her perspectives on life and why she wrote the play in the first place.

Richardson, Henry S.. Moral Entanglements : The Ancillary-Care Obligations of Medical Researchers. Cary, NC, USA: Oxford University Press, USA, 2012. ProQuest ebrary. Web. 22 February 2016.

I thought this could be useful for you because you talk about how Jason just treated Vivian as a piece of research.  This book talks about the responsibilities that researchers have and how they should treat those people they are researching.