INSH 2300 — Culture, Technology, and the Future of Health

4 semester hoursUndergraduateLectureNUpath DDNUpath SIusually offered: springtypical days: M/WBostonTraditional

Introduces the challenges posed by the data-heavy medicine of the future to privacy, the appropriate collection of medical data, and the ways that patients and healthcare workers alike think about health. Offers students an opportunity to learn how to use critical and ethical theories, analyze health narratives, and use historical and contemporary data about health disparities to forecast how new technologies might pose social and cultural challenges. Takes a humanities perspective to critically evaluate social and cultural aspects of a healthcare system shaped by emerging technologies and the data they produce.

Offering history

Term	Sections	Enrolled	Capacity	Full	Open seats/section
Spring 2024	1	16	19	84%	3.0
Spring 2025	1	7	19	37%	12.0

Snapshots from scheduled scrapes — not live seat availability. "Full" can exceed 100% when sections over-enroll.

Meeting times

Share of recent sections by weekday: M 100% · T 0% · W 100% · Th 0% · F 0%

Common patterns: MW (100% of sections) — in patterns, R means Thursday

Professors

Spring

Christopher Parsons (70% of students) · reviews
Sari Altschuler (30% of students) · reviews

Percentages are each professor's average share of the season's enrolled students in recent terms.

Links

Official catalog (INSH course descriptions) · Student reviews on RateMyHusky · All INSH courses · Plan it at numap.app