Teaching Victorian Short Fiction

The sickroom in Victorian fiction: the art of being ill

topically oriented chapters. Langstaff, who trained in a Toronto proprietary school that could not offer a medical degree, followed by a year at Guy's Hospital where he studied with some of the medical luminaries of his age, brought new diagnostic and therapeutic medical science to the bedside. He adopted the flexible stethoscope, thermometer, and ophthalmoscope soon after their introduction in...

Teaching AI Ethics Using Science Fiction

The cultural and political implications of modern AI research are not some far off concern, they are things that affect the world in the here and now. From advanced control systems with advanced visualizations and image processing techniques that drive the machines of the modern military to the slow creep of a mechanized workforce, ethical questions surround us. Part of dealing with these ethic...

Tell me a story: using short fiction in teaching law and bioethics.

Using Science Fiction in Teaching Artificial Intelligence

Many factors are blamed for the decreasing enrollments in computer science and engineering programs in the U.S., including the dot-com economic bust and the increase in the use of “off-shore” programming labor. One major factor is also the lack of bold new vision and excitement about computer science, which thus results in a view of computer science as a field wedded to routine programming. To ...

Lea Heiberg Madsen, ‘Medicine and Female Monstrosity in Neo-Victorian Fiction ...’

Victorian medical advances, along with Darwinian science, triggered an increasingly medicalised understanding of Human, which pervaded all spheres of 19 th century culture and came to play a crucial role in the Victorians’ perceptions of the body and mind. The medico-scientific differentiation between ‘complete’ and ‘incomplete’ subjects provided the backdrop for a wide range of pathological ca...