Spring 2025
Professor(s):
Leah Fowler (FACULTY)
Credits: 3
Course Areas: Health Law
Practice Skills - (Research and Writing)
Time: 9:00a-10:30a MW Location: 213
Course Outline: This writing seminar examines the complex interplay between health, law, and consumer technology. Our journey will traverse the eras of 19th-century patent medicines to the cutting-edge frontiers of transhumanism. We'll analyze how technological innovations in healthcare have shaped—and been shaped by—legal frameworks and regulatory policies. Key topics will include the evolution of food and drug laws, the rise of digital health and wearables, and the emerging challenges posed by new technology. Throughout the course, we'll critically evaluate how society has responded to these developments and debate the appropriate role of law and regulation. By exploring historical contexts and contemporary case studies, students will gain a nuanced understanding of how law can both facilitate and constrain technological progress and the tradeoffs that can both promote and harm health.
Course Syllabus: Syllabus
Course Notes: (Face-to-Face) The UH registration system instruction mode for this course is listed in parenthesis. For this instruction mode, instructors and students are expected to normally be physically present in the classroom. If the course has a final examination, it will be in a classroom requiring your physical presence. Other assessment, such as a mid-term exam, may also be in a classroom. Whether this instructor will offer “remote presence” (starting a zoom meeting from the podium computer to enable student remote access on an occasional basis) for part or all of the semester is not known, but students should not rely on an expectation that remote presence will be available.
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Satisfies Senior Upper Level Writing Requirement: Yes
Experiential Course Type: No
Bar Course: No
DistanceEd ABA: No
Pass-Fail Student Election: Unavailable (Instructor Preference)
Course Materials
No book required for this course
