AFR 214 Black Medicine & Technology

This course examines how race, culture, and science have transformed medical and technological history from the period of enslavement to the present. Physicians, scientists, social scientists, and historians have had a long and complicated history with the construct of race. Although we have relegated controversies such as eugenics to the dustbins of history as evidence of science's racist past, we would be foolish to think that science and technology always move forward toward greater and greater enlightenment. Racist ideas about group difference persist in the ways we conceptualize and conduct scientific investigations and in how we implement clinical practice or understand and interface with technology.

Credits

1 Course Credit