Browsing Science, Technology, and Society (STS) - Archived by Author "Helmreich, Stefan"
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21A.340J / STS.075J Technology and Culture, Fall 2006
Helmreich, Stefan (2006-12)This course examines relationships among technology, culture, and politics in a variety of social and historical settings ranging from 19th century factories to 21st century techno dance floors, from colonial Melanesia to ... -
21A.350J / SP.484J / STS.086J / WGS.484J The Anthropology of Computing, Fall 2004
Helmreich, Stefan (2004-12)This course examines computers anthropologically, as meaningful tools revealing the social and cultural orders that produce them. We read classic texts in computer science along with works analyzing links between machines ... -
21A.355J / STS.060J The Anthropology of Biology, Spring 2009
Helmreich, Stefan (2009-06)If the twentieth century was the century of physics, the twenty-first promises to be the century of biology. This subject examines the cultural, political, and economic dimensions of biology in the age of genomics, ... -
STS.330J / 21A.830J History and Anthropology of Medicine and Biology, Spring 2009
Jones, David; Helmreich, Stefan (2009-06)This course explores recent historical and anthropological approaches to the study of life, in both medicine and biology. After grounding our conversation in accounts of natural history and medicine that predate the rise ...