Technology and Society

3 credits · Graduate School

This course engages students in discovering relationships among individuals, institutions, and technologies, and how those relationships evolved in specific cultural contexts. Students and instructors will explore this topic in four modules: 1) understanding health care actors and technologies; 2) institutions and other infrastructures, including scientific disciplines, government, and information infrastructures; 3) principles of ethics and their application in biomedical informatics research and practice; and 4) integration of the concepts. The course will be conducted as a seminar, in which students and instructors will discuss assigned readings and films. Each student will present a final case to the group. FALL [3] Novak