Human Experiments

3 credits · Undergraduate

This course explores the history, method, and meaning of experimenting on humans through a series of case studies that question how these experiments mediate between experimenters, their subjects, and the state and how these relationships have influenced our ideas of scientific objectivity, autonomy and consent, race, gender, and class divides. CROSSLISTED: HSTC 3101.03 EXCLUSIONS: HSTC 3615.03 and CTMP 3411.03 for the 2017/18 academic year only. FORMATS: Lecture | Seminar | Discussion