Graduate Seminar in Medicine, Technology, and Globalization

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In the last two hundred years medicine and technology have transformed our day-to-day living as never before. They have permeated our social and personal imagination, our epistemological bearing, disciplinary practices, and not to forget national and global agendas. A key aspect of such transformations, which we are going to investigate in this course, has been the intertwining of medicine and technology in a variety of ways, resulting in wide ranging impact - from the emergence of medical gaze, transformation of healthcare practices, to present day transnationalization and globalization of medical practices. This course would utilize recent theoretical developments to interrogate different interrelated facets of medicine, technology, and globalization. Graded on A-F basis only. Credit Hour s : 3