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Course Info

  • Course Number / Code:
  • HST.930J (Fall 2005) 
  • Course Title:
  • Social Studies of Bioscience and Biotech 
  • Course Level:
  • Graduate 
  • Offered by :
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
    Massachusetts, United States  
  • Department:
  • Health Sciences and Technology 
  • Course Instructor(s):
  • Prof. Michael M. Fischer
    Prof. Byron Good
    Prof. Mary-Jo Good 
  • Course Introduction:
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  • HST.930J / STS.449J Social Studies of Bioscience and Biotech



    Fall 2005




    Course Highlights


    This course features a complete bibliography of readings.


    Course Description


    In this course, social, ethical and clinical issues associated with the development of new biotechnologies and their integration into clinical practice is discussed. Basic scientists, clinicians, bioethicists, and social scientists present on the following four general topics: changing political economy of biotech research; problems associated with the adaption of new biotechnologies and findings from molecular biology for clinical settings; the ethical issues that emerge from clinical research and clinical use of new technologies; and the broader social ethics of access and inequality.
     

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