Module CS3800-KP03, CS3800

Duration

1 Semester

Turnus of offer

each summer semester

Credit points

3 (Typ B)

Course of studies, specific fields and terms:

• Bachelor Medical Informatics 2019, compulsory, interdisciplinary competence
• Bachelor Medical Informatics 2014, compulsory, interdisciplinary competence
• Bachelor Medical Informatics 2011, compulsory, interdisciplinary competence

Classes and lectures:

• Social Aspects of Medical Informatics (lecture, 1 SWS)
• Social Aspects of Medical Informatics (seminar, 1 SWS)

Workload:

• 30 hours in-classroom work
• 20 hours private studies
• 40 hours written report

Contents of teaching:

• History and philosophy of technology and informatics in general
• Theories of technolution (how and when do innovations emerge?)
• Critique and assessment of technology, technology assessment
• Fields of application of information technology in medicine
• Ethical and societal aspects of information technology
• Data security, cultural and aesthetical aspects of digital media

Qualification-goals/Competencies:

• Students are able to describe and explain basic concepts, theories, and methods of history of technology studies.
• They can depict pivotal stages and controversies in the historical development of medical informatics.
• They are capable to identify questions of social acceptability of information technology, to carve out their different implications, and to discuss them critically.
• They have an understanding of the philosophical and cultural implications of information technology, and are able to apply this knowledge to case studies.
• They master to research, interpret, and analyze critically scientific literature on the module's topics.
• They have the communication competency to analyze and present societal aspects of technological issues in oral and written form.

Grading through:

• presentation
• Written report
• continuous, successful participation in course

Responsible for this module:

• Prof. Dr. med. Cornelius Borck

Teacher:

• Institute of Medical Informatics
• Institute for History of Medicine and Science Studies
• Prof. Dr. med. Cornelius Borck
• Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Burghard Weiss
• Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Heinz Handels
• Prof. Dr. phil. Christoph Rehmann-Sutter
• Dipl.-Inform. Dr. med. Jan-Hinrich Wrage
• Dr. phil. nat. Thorsten Kohl
• Dr. phil. Daniela Zetti

Literature:

• Kramme R (Hrsg.) : Medizintechnik: Verfahren – Systeme – Informationsverarbeitung 4. Aufl. Berlin, Heidelberg, New York: Springer 2011
• Orland B (Hrsg) : Artifizielle Körper – lebendige Technik: Technische Modellierungen des Körpers in historischer Perspektive Zürich: Chronos 2005
• Horx M : Technolution. Wie unsere Zukunft sich entwickelt Frankfurt: Campus 2008

Language:

• offered only in German

Notes:

Last Updated:

15.09.2021