Short Courses
This Course seeks to provide students with the main areas of analysis in contemporary empirical research that examines the social regulation of biotechnology.
Specific objectives:
To identify the key approaches and debates in the field of social studies of biotechnology and biomedicine;
To discuss the societal, economic and ethical repercussions of the politics of regulation;
To understand the heterogeneity of uses and social meanings associated with the applications of biotechnology;
To analyse the multiple inequalities in terms of power, property and citizensÂ’ interactions with biotechnology;
To evaluate the main fields of knowledge in contemporary research around health and biotechnology, in particular: reprogenetics, genomics, and new life sciences.
