Plasticity of adult stem cells. (Image courtesy of the National Institutes of Health.)
Instructor(s)
Prof. Byron Good
Prof. Mary-Jo DelVecchio Good
Prof. Michael M.J. Fischer
MIT Course Number
HST.930J / STS.449J
As Taught In
Fall 2005
Level
Graduate
Course Description
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.