This course will focus on understanding aspects of modern technology displaying exponential growth curves and the impact on global quality of life through a weekly updated class project integrating knowledge and providing practical tools for political and business decision-making concerning new aspects of bioengineering, personalized medicine, genetically modified organisms, and stem cells. Interplays of economic, ethical, ecological, and biophysical modeling will be explored through multi-disciplinary teams of students, and individual brief reports.
- Subject:
- Applied Science
- Biology
- Economics
- Health, Medicine and Nursing
- Life Science
- Social Science
- Material Type:
- Full Course
- Provider Set:
- MIT OpenCourseWare
- Author:
- Church, George
- Douglas, Shawn
- Wait, Alexander
- Zucker, Jeremy
- Date Added:
- 09/01/2005