INFO I453 (Spring 2025) Ethics on Exhibit

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  Soviet Faith War

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  Around the 1930’s, the Soviet Union was drafting new legislation that would get rid of religious activities and education to try to persuade people away from religion. Most of the people apart of the Russian Orthodox Church were either shot or sent t...

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  Capturing Medical Morality

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  Published in 1868 by L'Hôpital Saint-Louis in Paris, Clinique Photographique is a medical text documenting dermatological diseases through photography. It was one of the earliest attempts to visually catalog skin conditions for scientific study. Whil...

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  Censored Silver Screens

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  The Des Moines Sunday Register’s Hollywood (Uncensored) offers a glimpse into the battle between creativity and control during the Hays Code era. This artifact exposes the ways in which Hollywood filmmakers pushed boundaries while navigating strict c...

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  Goat Gland Doctor

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  Goat Gland Doctor: In the early 1900s, during the Great Depression, John Brinkley claimed to be a doctor despite having no education or degree. Through marketing and campaigns, he gained widespread attention and later published Dr. Brinkley's Doctor ...

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  Book of Hours

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  In the early 15th century, Bruges artisans crafted Books of Hours, personalized prayer books reflecting their owners' spiritual and artistic preferences. One surviving manuscript reveals evidence of modular construction, where pre-made miniatures and...

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  AI In Creation

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  Aum golly¹ and Aum golly² challenge traditional ideas of authorship by questioning whether AI-generated works should be seen as truly original creations. These books, developed with AI assistance, raise ethical concerns about whether AI, trained on h...

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  The Forbidden Word

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  This is The Forbidden Word, an ePortfolio about an index of banned books by the Spanish Inquisition, or "Index librorvm prohibitorvm et expvrgandorvm novissimvs". The Spanish Catholic Church in the mid-17th century, under King Phillip IV, banned a la...

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  Babbage's Calculating Engines

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  Babbage's Calculating Engines revolutionized the history of computing. These early mechanical devices laid the groundwork for modern computing. My ePortfolio looks at Babbage's ideas of the development of engines and the impact he had on technology.