ANTC65H3

Anthropology of Science, Medicine, and Technology

This course is an enquiry into the social construction of science and scientific expertise, with a particular focus on medicine and health. The interdisciplinary field of Science and Technology Studies (STS) opens up a very different perspective from what gets taught in biology classes about how medical knowledge is created, disseminated, becomes authoritative (or not), and is taken up by different groups of people. In our current era of increasing anti-science attitudes and “alternative facts,” this course will offer students an important new awareness of the politics of knowledge production.