RT Article
T1 Ethical perspectives on femtech: Moving from concerns to capability-sensitive designs
JF Bioethics
VO 37
IS 5
SP 430
OP 439
A1 Jacobs, Naomi
A1 Evers, Jenneke
LA English
PB Wiley-Blackwell
YR 2023
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1845791347
AB Femtech is the collective name for technologies that address female health needs. Femtech applications can help women digitally track their period, manage their fertility, and support their pregnancy. Although femtech has beneficial potential, there are various ethical concerns to be raised with current femtech apps. In this article, we discuss three of the main ethical concerns with femtech apps regarding (1) medical reliability, (2) privacy, and (3) gender stereotyping and epistemic injustice, and we explore how Capability Sensitive Design, a novel design framework for health and well-being technologies, is able to mitigate these concerns and help create morally sensitive femtech.
K1 period tracking
K1 fertility apps
K1 femtech
K1 ethics by design
K1 digital health technology
K1 Capability Sensitive Design
DO 10.1111/bioe.13148