J. Benjamin Hurlbut is trained in the history of modern biomedical and life sciences. His research lies at the intersection of science and technology studies, bioethics and political theory. He studies the changing relationships between science, politics and law in the governance of biomedical research and innovation in the 20th and 21st centuries.
Focusing on controversy around morally and technically complex problems in areas such as human embryonic stem cell research and genomics, Hurlbut examines the interplay of science and technology with shifting notions of democracy, of religious and moral pluralism, and of public reason.
He is author of Experiments in Democracy: Human Embryo Research and the Politics of Bioethics (Columbia University Press, 2017). He holds an A.B. from Stanford University, and a Ph.D. in the History of Science from Harvard University. He was a postdoctoral fellow in the Program on Science, Technology, and Society at Harvard Kennedy School.
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Spring 2021 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
BIO 312 | Bioethics |
PHI 320 | Bioethics |
BIO 394 | Special Topics |
HON 394 | Special Topics |
BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
BIO 493 | Honors Thesis |
BIO 499 | Individualized Instruction |
BIO 598 | Special Topics |
Fall 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
BIO 493 | Honors Thesis |
BIO 499 | Individualized Instruction |
BIO 598 | Special Topics |
HPS 615 | Biology and Society Lab |
BIO 615 | Biology and Society Lab |
Spring 2020 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
BIO 312 | Bioethics |
PHI 320 | Bioethics |
BIO 394 | Special Topics |
HON 394 | Special Topics |
BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
BIO 493 | Honors Thesis |
BIO 499 | Individualized Instruction |
BIO 598 | Special Topics |
Fall 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
BIO 493 | Honors Thesis |
BIO 499 | Individualized Instruction |
HSD 598 | Special Topics |
HPS 598 | Special Topics |
BIO 598 | Special Topics |
Spring 2019 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
BIO 312 | Bioethics |
PHI 320 | Bioethics |
BIO 394 | Special Topics |
HON 394 | Special Topics |
BIO 493 | Honors Thesis |
BIO 499 | Individualized Instruction |
BIO 598 | Special Topics |
Fall 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |
BIO 493 | Honors Thesis |
BIO 499 | Individualized Instruction |
HSD 598 | Special Topics |
HPS 598 | Special Topics |
BIO 598 | Special Topics |
BIO 615 | Biology and Society Lab |
HPS 615 | Biology and Society Lab |
Spring 2018 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
BIO 493 | Honors Thesis |
BIO 499 | Individualized Instruction |
Spring 2017 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
BIO 312 | Bioethics |
BIO 394 | Special Topics |
HON 394 | Special Topics |
BIO 493 | Honors Thesis |
BIO 499 | Individualized Instruction |
HPS 598 | Special Topics |
BIO 598 | Special Topics |
Fall 2016 | |
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Course Number | Course Title |
BIO 318 | History of Medicine |
HPS 331 | History of Medicine |
BIO 492 | Honors Directed Study |