Nationality: American Education: Ph.D. in Sociology and Personality... Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology â€¦ https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8694125-alone-together Start by marking â€œAlone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Otherâ€ as Want to Read: ... Unfortunately I am no closer to telling you why we expect more from technology & less from each other than I was before I read this book. One of the main things that bothered me about this book was that, even though I was really interested in these â€¦

Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other

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The obesity epidemic: science, morality and ideology

Is there a right to live an unhealthy life? This core question is addressed through a series of controversial questions: If there is a right to live an unhealthy life, what kind of right is this? Can an autonomous person choose to live an unhealthy life? Is a choice to live an unhealthy life an autonomous choice? Do we have a duty or a responsibility to live healthy life? Does health neglect or own responsibility for poor health have consequences for access to health care and health care prioritization? How to justify public health interventions in order to make people live healthier lives? What is “health” and “unhealthy” in a right to lead an unhealthy life? By addressing these questions I will highlight that they have many answers, resulting in different responses to the question of whether there is a right to lead an unhealthy life. Which of the answers one prefers, strongly depends on perspectives and theoretical viewpoints, which are discussed in the paper. Acknowledging the strengths and weaknesses in the answers and their justifications is important for framing and implementing policies in public health.

Public health: ethical issues.

In earlier times, a woman knew she was pregnant when she experienced \"quickening\" - she felt movement within her. Today a woman relies on what she sees in a test result or a digital sonogram image to confirm her pregnancy. A private experience, once mediated by women themselves, has become a public experience interpreted and controlled by medical professionals. In this study, the author takes a closer look at this contemporary transformation of women's experience of pregnancy. She suggests that advances in technology, and parallel changes in public discourse, have transformed pregnancy into a managed process. The mother is defined as an ecosystem, and the foetus as an endangered species. Drawing on historical research, Duden traces the graphic techniques - from anatomist's drawings and woodcuts, to X-rays and ultrasound - used to \"flay\" the female body and turn it inside out. Emphasizing the iconic power of the visual within 20th-century culture, she follows the process by which the pregnant woman's flesh has been peeled away to uncover scientific data. Lennart Nilsson's now famous photographs of the embryo, published in \"Life\" magazine in the mid 1960s, stand in stark contrast to representations of the invisible unborn in medieval iconography or 16th-century painting. Illumination has given way to illustration, ideogram to facsimile, the contemplative intuition of the body to a scientific analysis of its component parts. New ways of seeing the body produce new ways of experiencing the body. Because technology allows us to penetrate that once-secret enclosure of the womb, the image of the foetus, has eclipsed that of woman in the public mind. Society, anxious about the health of the global environment, has focused on protecting \"life\" in the maternal ecosystem, in effect, pitting foetus against mother. Duden's reading of the body lends a unique historical and philosophical perspective to contemporary debate over such topics as foetal rights, reproductive technologies, abortion, and the right to privacy. This work should reinvigorate the debate by calling into question contemporary certainties, and the policies and programmes they serve to justify.

Fetal Protection in the Workplace: Women's Rights, Business Interests, and the Unborn.@@@Disembodying Women: Perspectives on Pregnancy and the Unborn.

Background: Maintaining social relationships has been defined as a core element of aging well. With a considerable amount of older adults living alone, social media provides the possibility to engage in meaningful social contact, e.g. by joining online social networks and online discussion forums. Objective: The review encompasses current knowledge of prerequisites in social media use of older adults such as functional capacity, information and communications technology-related knowledge, and favorable attitudes towards social media. Then, the potential of social media use for clinical practice and possible negative consequences are outlined. Method: Literature on social media use from a gerontological perspective was reviewed in July and August 2012. Results: Online communities are suitable for providing and receiving social support when confronted with a difficult life situation, regardless of geographical location or time. From a practitioner’s perspective, social media can be used to advance health-related knowledge such as informa

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Social media use of older adults: a mini-review.

Successful technologies' ubiquity changes uses, users and ethicolegal responsibilities and duties of care. We focus on dementia to review critically ethicolegal implications of increasing use of social networking sites (SNS) by those with compromised decision-making capacity, assessing concerned parties' responsibilities. Although SNS contracts assume ongoing decision-making capacity, many users' may be compromised or declining. Resulting ethicolegal issues include capacity to give informed consent to contracts, protection of online privacy including sharing and controlling data, data leaks between different digital platforms, and management of digital identities and footprints. SNS uses in healthcare raise additional issues. Online materials acting as archives of `the self' bolster present and future identities for users with compromised capacity. E-health involves actual and potential intersection of data gathered for the purpose of delivering health technological support with data used for social networking purposes. Ethicolegal guidance is limited on the implications of SNS usage in contexts where users have impaired/reduced capacity to understand and/or consent to sharing personal data about their health, medication or location. Vulnerable adults and family/carers face uncertainty in regard to consent, data protection, online identity and legal liabilities. Ethicolegal responsibilities and duties of care of technology providers, healthcare professionals, regulatory bodies and policymakers need clarification.

Challenges of ethical and legal responsibilities when technologies' uses and users change: social networking sites, decision-making capacity and dementia

Medical decision making by patients is respected as a lawful exercise of free will and agency unless patients are found to lack “competence.” Yet measures of competence in medical decision making t...

Including Emotionality in Tests of Competence: How Does Neurodiversity Affect Measures of Free Will and Agency in Medical Decision Making?

Neuromodulatory stimuli involved in deep brain stimulation (DBS) produce reversible effects, and may be turned on, turned up or down, or turned off. They afford unique opportunities to map connecti...

Who Should Hold the Remote for the New Me? Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Side Effects of DBS and Authentic Choices Over Future Personalities

Much sex is neither intimate nor loving but is accompanied by coercion and/or commodification in the billion dollar sex industry. Some suggest that sexbots replace sex workers. I consider ethicolegal issues arising over how far human rights and laws protecting sex workers and other citizens should apply to sexbots. Without legal protections, the sex industry would undoubtedly produce sexbots for morally unacceptable sexual practices, like pedophilia.Sexbots thus test boundaries of acceptable sexual practice. Sexbots could be manufactured who gained pleasure from pain, or who wanted to be tortured or killed, or to manifest qualities which specialist websites show have fetishistic appeal, including children and nonhumans.My contribution to HCI research is this critical analysis of how far sexbots' cognitive, emotional and physical abilities and their autonomous choices and decision-making might permissibly be restricted and what legal protections they should be afforded. I argue that a code of ethical design and agreement on their ethicolegal status are urgently needed.

Robin Mackenzie

Papers

Challenges of ethical and legal responsibilities when technologies' uses and users change: social networking sites, decision-making capacity and dementia

Including Emotionality in Tests of Competence: How Does Neurodiversity Affect Measures of Free Will and Agency in Medical Decision Making?

Who Should Hold the Remote for the New Me? Cognitive, Affective, and Behavioral Side Effects of DBS and Authentic Choices Over Future Personalities

Sexbots: Replacements for Sex Workers? Ethical Constraints on the Design of Sentient Beings for Utilitarian Purposes

Somatechnics of medico-legal taxonomies: elective amputation and transableism