AFRAMER 168 - Genetics, Society and Ethics: Social Engagement Course

Institution:

Harvard University

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Description:

This course explores several socially transforming components of genetics research that hold simultaneously liberating and constraining possibilities for populations and publics, both locally and globally. Through interviews, fieldwork, and participant observation (in both science and ethics fields), students will assess how the technological projects covered in the course differentially implicate national, racial, gendered, and economic groups. Special attention will be given to genetic research ethics when subject populations are Africans and African-Americans.

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.harvard.edu

Phone Number:

(617) 495-1000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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