Cancelled Medical Science and Technology Studies - Analysis and Writing

Science and technology studies (STS) is influential and important in giving a broader understanding of medical research and practice.

Medical STS is a multidisciplinary domain which investigates social, institutional, political and epistemological or knowledge aspects of science and new technologies using concepts and methodologies from anthropology, sociology, philosphy, organisation studies, and polictical science. 

Medical STS is often used in studies of digitalization, new medical technologies, death, the body, datafication of healthcare, reproductive technologies, human animal research and many others. 

In this course, we consider the way in which science, which often understands itself as striving for objective knowledge, is embedded in the complexity of institutional, technological, gendered, political actual social contexts.

We use STS to question assumptions about science and scientific method. In existing research and in our own writing. This allows for cirtical perspectives on how knowledge is generated and distributed, and discussions about how scientific knowledge is translated into social effects. 

Throughout the course, we use exciting new examples from medical STS research (presented by researchers themselves) to understand how medical STS can provide new perspectives on and clinical practice, ethical dilemmas and digitalization in the public healthcare setting.

The goal is to provide students with a tool box to embark on their own writing and analysis using concepts from medical STS.