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Humanidades Médicas
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MACIAS LLANES, Maria Elena et al. Strengthening the Science-Technology-Society approach: an educative innovation for postgraduate courses. Rev Hum Med [online]. 2003, vol.3, n.3, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1727-8120.
The social studies of science and technology, also known as Science - Technology - Society Studies (CTS), is a scientific field that in spite of its relative youth is considered a consolidated field of academic investigation, in the scientific politics and education areas. CTS Studies emphasize the social aspects of the science-technology phenomenon in its social and environmental consequences, for that reason it regards critically the images or classic approaches of science and technology that are still predominant. It also guides towards a careful attitude around the scientific activity. Their valuable theoretical and conceptual structures are fundamental for the analysis of health sciences and technologies, which turns it into a meaningful instrument of higher medical education and of the theory and practice of Public Health in general. These educational strategy allows upgrading the paradigms from which the interrelations science-technology-society are analyzed, as a way to answer the necessities of satisfying cognitive demands in this area. The essential objective of the strategy consists of providing better developed and vaster visions of the scientific-technological activity, so that this promotes an ethical and responsible attitude among health professionals. The post graduate course proposed is part of the Postgraduate System of Education of the Center of Humanities and Ethics in Health Sciences and it has been approved by the Public Health National School as an international course
Palabras clave : EDUCATION GRADUATE/SCIENCE; TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY.