Upon successful completion of the course, you will be able to:
• Analyze the historical development of medical technologies and their transformative impact on healthcare practices over the past two centuries.
• Evaluate the complex relationship between medical technologies and societal understandings of disease, including how technologies both reflect and reshape our concepts of health.
• Assess the intended benefits and unintended consequences of technological integration in medicine, with particular attention to ethical considerations.
• Develop informed perspectives on emerging digital technologies and artificial intelligence in healthcare, applying interdisciplinary approaches to design better healthcare technologies.
• Design user (patient, doctor, or hospital)-centered services based on the understanding of the course.

Attendance 10%
• Attendance will be checked from week 3.
• One absence will not be counted for the final grade.
Discussion 20%
• Class participation is highly encouraged to engage with the reading materials and exchange ideas with peers.
Assignment 20%
• This exercise encourages you to observe people and express their concerns in a measurable way.
• You may write about yourself.
Final Project 50%
• Ideation, the idea-development process, background research, data collection, collaboration, and outcomes will be assessed.

• Ida Sim and Christine Cassel. (2024). The Ethics of Relational AI — Expanding and Implementing the Belmont Principles. The New England Journal of Medicine 391(3): 193-196.
• Levi-Strauss (1963): The Sorcerer and his Magic. In: Levi-Strauss, Claude: Structural Anthropology. New York: Doubleday Anchor Books.
• 인공지능 기본법
• The Medical Futurist
• 닥터프렌즈

Part I: Conceptual backgrounds about medicine
• In the first part, we will review how advances in science, technology, and medicine have shaped life and lifestyle choices.
• Readings from Atul Gawande’s _Complications_ & 이낙준 _오! 마이갓세계사_
• Lecture slides will be provided to complement the readings.

[week 1]
• Icebreaking: Meet your classmates and the instructor
• Medical practices before the emergence of modern sciences
• Participate in the discussion about our understanding of life and death
• Lecture slides
[week 2]
• Main question: How did human beings experience and organize bodies and nature before the invention of biology and technology?
• Healing practices before and the rise of science and medicine
• Medicine, rationality, witchcraft
• Lecture slides
[week 3]
• Physicians vs. surgeons before the twentieth century
• Qualitative medicine and scientific medicine
• Reading
[week 4]
• Hospital as the center of care
• Technology and hospital
• Health literacy: the degree to which individuals are able to find, understand, and use information and services to inform health-related decisions and actions for themselves and others
[week 5]
• Standardization of practice and datafication
• Patients’ experience, doctor-patient relationship
[week 6]
• Innovative drugs and manageable illness
[week 7]
• Integrative and complementary medicine
• Innovation, ethics, and regulation
[week 8]
• Assignment: idea writing

Part II: AI in Medicine and Healthcare (cases)
Recent cases will be introduced.

[week 9]
• Review
• IT merging with healthcare
• Healthcare platforms
[week 10]
• IVF
• ELSI
[week 11]
• History of surgical technology
• Da Vinci robotic system
• Merge between surgical robotics and AI
[week 12]
• Rehab robotics
• Merge with AI
• Students’ idea presentation of final project
[week 13]
• Futures of hospital, doctor, patient, care
• Ethical and legal concerns; domestic and international perspectives
[week 14]
• Global health and equity
• What competencies are required in the age of AI?
[week 15]
• Overview of MD/PhD
• Engineer and physician
• Engineer and healthcare technologies
[week 16]
• Final project submission

• ‘Respect’ is a cornerstone of this class.
• Attendance is mandatory and will be taken from week 3. However, one absence will not be counted toward the final grade.
• The instructor will take attendance, so students do not need to swipe their cards in the system.
• Late assignments may be accepted only with the instructor’s permission under certain circumstances. Students should contact the instructor in advance if they need an extension.
• PLMS is the main communication medium for announcements, readings, lecture slides, assignments, and more. Students can find assignment details (due dates, submission instructions, etc.) on PLMS.