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Current Academic Year 2012 - 2013
Please note that this information is subject to change.

Module Title Technology and the Person
Module Code NS230
School School of Nursing and Human Sciences
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Module Co-ordinatorSemester 1: Michael Keane
Semester 2: Michael Keane
Autumn: Michael Keane
NFQ level 8 Credit Rating 5
Pre-requisite None
Co-requisite None
Compatibles None
Incompatibles None
Description
This module will explore the human technology interface and the emerging psychological, social, ethical and clinical debates and dilemmas.

Learning Outcomes
1. Critique the roles, uses and impact of technology in health, illness and disability
2. Discuss the role of the body and embodiment in health, illness and disability
3. Examine the personal impact of living with and depending on technology for health and wellbeing



Workload Full-time hours per semester
Type Hours Description
Lecture24No Description
Seminars12No Description
Directed learning12No Description
Independent learning time77No Description
Total Workload: 125

All module information is indicative and subject to change. For further information,students are advised to refer to the University's Marks and Standards and Programme Specific Regulations at: http://www.dcu.ie/registry/examinations/index.shtml

Indicative Content and Learning Activities
Typologies of health technology: Life sustaining technology; life lengthening technology; life enhancing technology; enabling technology, information and communication technologies; point of care technologies; preventative (screening) technologies..
Definitions of the body: where does the body end and begin? The technologised body; living through technology; embodiment; body image..

Impact of technology on understanding of health: how does technology influence our discourses and understanding of what it means to be well?.
Technology and issues of self-identity; How technology influences the user’s relationship to their own sense of self and how they interact with themselves..

Personal impact of living with and through technology for health and wellbeing..
The role and social impact of health technology in society; What technology use indicates about cultural norms and how culture influences our understanding of technology..

Ethical dilemmas and decisions that technologies can bring about; living at risk..
Assessment Breakdown
Continuous Assessment100% Examination Weight%
Course Work Breakdown
TypeDescription% of totalAssessment Date
Essayn/a100%n/a
Reassessment Requirement
Resit arrangements are explained by the following categories;
1 = A resit is available for all components of the module
2 = No resit is available for 100% continuous assessment module
3 = No resit is available for the continuous assessment component
This module is category 1
Indicative Reading List
  • Lauritzen, S. O & Hyden, L. C. (Eds.): 2006, Medical Technologies and the Life World: The Social Construction of Normality (Critical Studies in Health and Society), Routledge, London, 978-0415364348
  • MacLachlan, M.: 2004, Embodiment: Clinical, Critical & Cultural Perspectives, Open University Press, Milton Keynes, 978-0335209590
  • MacLachlan, M. & Gallagher, P.: 2004, Enabling Technologies: Body Image and Body Function, Churchill Livingstone, Edinburgh, 978-0443072475
  • Bauby, J. D.: 2004, The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly, Harper Perennial, London, 978-0007139842
  • Cole, J.: 0, Still Lives: Narratives of Spinal Cord Injury, MIT Press, MA, 978-0262532846
  • Frank, A. W.: 1995, The Wounded Storyteller: Body, Illness and Ethics, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 978-0226259932
  • Scherer, M. J.: 2003, Assistive Technology: Matching Device and Consumer for Successful Rehabilitation, American Psychological Association, Washington DC, 978-1557988409
Other Resources
None
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Programme or List of Programmes
BHSBachelor of Science in Health & Society
BPYBSc (Honours) in Psychology
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