Ethical perspectives on femtech: Moving from concerns to capability-sensitive designs

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 cur...

ver descrição completa

Na minha lista:  
Detalhes bibliográficos
Authors: Jacobs, Naomi (Author) ; Evers, Jenneke (Author)
Tipo de documento: Recurso Electrónico Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Verificar disponibilidade: HBZ Gateway
Journals Online & Print:
Carregar...
Fernleihe:Fernleihe für die Fachinformationsdienste
Publicado em: Wiley-Blackwell 2023
Em: Bioethics
Ano: 2023, Volume: 37, Número: 5, Páginas: 430-439
Classificações IxTheo:NBE Antropologia
NCH Ética da medicina
TK Período contemporâneo
ZG Media studies; Digital media; Communication studies
Outras palavras-chave:B period tracking
B digital health technology
B Capability Sensitive Design
B ethics by design
B fertility apps
B femtech
Acesso em linha: Volltext (kostenfrei)
Volltext (kostenfrei)
Descrição
Resumo: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.
ISSN:1467-8519
Obras secundárias:Enthalten in: Bioethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/bioe.13148