The challenge ahead / Joschka Haltaufderheide, Johanna Hovemann, Jochen Vollmann -- Challenges in interacting with people with dementia / Claudia Dinand, Margareta Halek -- Do robots care? / Andrea Bertolini, Shabahang Arian -- Trusting robots? / Svenja Wiertz -- Promoting ehealth literacy / Anna Haupeltshofer, Pascal Meier -- Geriatric trauma patients asw research subjects in a technology-driven research project / Amelie altenbuchner, Karsen Weber --- Using MEESTAR for early evaluation of ethical, legal and social implications of a socio-technical support system for mechanically ventilated patients / Angelika Schley, Katrin Balzer -- Challenges arising from the use of assistive technologies by people with dementia in home care arrangements -- Assistive robots in care: expecatations and perceptions of older people // Julia A. Hoppe, Rose-Mari Johansson-Oajala, Christiane Gustafsson [and 5 others] -- Rethinking consent in mhealth: (A) moment to process / Iris Losman -- Reconfigurations of autonomy in digital health and ethics of (socially) assistive technologies -- Personal autonomy in elderly and disabled: how assistive technologies impact on it / Ricardo Morte, Mario Toboso, Manuel Aparicio (and 3 others).
Summary:
With increasing urgency, decisions about the digitalized future of healthcare and implementations of new assistive technologies are becoming focal points of societal and scientific debates and addresses large audiences. Decisions require a careful weighing of risks and benefits and contextualizing in-depth ethical analysis with robust empirical data. However, up to now, research on social assistive technologies is mostly dispersed over different academic fields and disciplines. A comprehensive overview on discussions regarding values at stake and ethical assessment of recent developments especially in healthcare is largely missing. This publication initiates an interdisciplinary discourse on ethical, legal and social implications of socially assistive technologies in healthcare. Contributions include perspectives from nursing science, social sciences, philosophy, medical ethics, economics and law to present an - to our knowledge - first and comprehensive overview on different aspects of the use and implementation of socially assistive technologies from an ethical perspective. It combines practically relevant insights and examples from current research and development with ethical analysis to uncover exemplary moral tipping points between promotion of participation or well-being and risks and damages to these values. Healthcare professionals involved in implementation of smart technologies as well as scholars from the field of humanities, nursing and medicine, interested in the discussions on ethics and technology in healthcare, will benefit from this new contribution.
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