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Digital Doppelgängers, Human Relationships, and Practical Identity

Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper, we examine the potential effects of relationships with Large Language Model (LLM)‐based digital doppelgängers (DDs) on users' values, concerns, and interests, that is, on their practical identity. DDs are artificially intelligent conversational agents trained on individuals' data to replicate their speech patterns, mannerisms ...
Cristina Voinea, Sebastian Porsdam Mann, Julian Savulescu, Brian D. Earp   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Principles for ethical research in the Himalayas: Decolonising research ethics across the disciplines. [PDF]

Humanit Soc Sci Commun
Malik IH.
europepmc   +1 more source

Digitizing Dignity: Analyzing Digital Twins Through the Lens of Multidimensional Human Dignity

Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In precision medicine, digital twins—virtual models of patients created using personalized data and advanced machine learning—are potentially changing healthcare by predicting health outcomes and guiding medical decisions. However, their use raises complex ethical questions, particularly concerning their relationship to human dignity. Patients
Andrew J. Barnhart
wiley   +1 more source

Modeling versatility as the hallmark of model organisms. [PDF]

Hist Philos Life Sci
Prieto GI, Fábregas-Tejeda A.
europepmc   +1 more source

The Credibility of Bioethics After the Gaza Genocide

Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Between October 2023 and January 2025, the Israeli military's sustained attacks on Gaza resulted in an estimated 186,000 deaths and the systematic destruction of healthcare infrastructure. Despite the professed commitment to human dignity, justice, and the minimization of suffering within bioethics, major institutions and scholars in the field
Maide Barış, Hossein Dabbagh, Mohammad Sharif Razai, Mehmet İnanç Özekmekçi, Arianne Shahvisi   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Patient Participation in Clinical Ethics Interventions: A Requirement of Procedural and Epistemic Justice. [PDF]

Bioethics
Eijkholt M.
europepmc   +1 more source

A Confucian Perspective on Public Health Ethics

Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Debates in public health ethics have been dominated by the assumptions of Western liberalism: a priority given to liberty and autonomy over other values, an individualistic view of social ontology, a focus on personal responsibility, a minimal set of obligations (only created through consent), and a marginalization of social, cultural, and ...
Kathryn Muyskens, Angus Dawson
wiley   +1 more source

Unmasking therapy-speak. [PDF]

Theor Med Bioeth
Isern-Mas C, Almagro M.
europepmc   +1 more source

Dementia, Advance Directives, and Second‐Order Volitions

Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper contributes to the ongoing debate over the authority of advance directives in cases where patients with dementia express desires that conflict with their earlier wishes. Drawing on Harry Frankfurt's concept of second‐order volitions, I argue that the preferences of the pre‐dementia self (the “then‐self”) should, in most cases, take ...
Rand Hirmiz
wiley   +1 more source

Expanding the Taxonomy of Ethical Issues in Surgical Innovation

Bioethics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Surgical innovation poses significant ethical challenges. Previous work has grouped these challenges under four categories: potential harms to patients; compromised informed consent; unfair allocation of healthcare resources; and conflicts of interest. We argue that recent technological developments in surgery warrant the addition of three new
Jane Johnson, Katrina Hutchison, Wendy Rogers   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source