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Algorithmic Fairness and Structural Injustice: Insights from Feminist Political Philosophy [PDF]
Data-driven predictive algorithms are widely used to automate and guide high-stake decision making such as bail and parole recommendation, medical resource distribution, and mortgage allocation. Nevertheless, harmful outcomes biased against vulnerable groups have been reported. The growing research field known as 'algorithmic fairness' aims to mitigate
Atoosa Kasirzadeh
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The concept of vulnerability in medical ethics and philosophy
Background Healthcare is permeated by phenomena of vulnerability and their ethical significance. Nonetheless, application of this concept in healthcare ethics today is largely confined to clinical research.
Joachim Boldt
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MedPerf: Open Benchmarking Platform for Medical Artificial Intelligence using Federated Evaluation [PDF]
Medical AI has tremendous potential to advance healthcare by supporting the evidence-based practice of medicine, personalizing patient treatment, reducing costs, and improving provider and patient experience. We argue that unlocking this potential requires a systematic way to measure the performance of medical AI models on large-scale heterogeneous ...
A. Karargyris+41 more
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Materialized Oppression in Medical Tools and Technologies
It is well-known that racism is encoded into the social practices and institutions of medicine. Less well-known is that racism is encoded into the material artifacts of medicine.
Shen-yi Liao, Vanessa Carbonell
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Disability inclusion in Medical Education: Towards a quality improvement approach
The shift to a more diverse workforce that includes physicians with disabilities has gained considerable international traction. Indeed, disability inclusion is experiencing a renaissance in medical education.
Satendra Singh, L. Meeks
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Caring to Care: Applying Noddings' Philosophy to Medical Education.
The authors argue that Nel Noddings' philosophy, "an ethic of caring," may illuminate how students learn to be caring physicians from their experience of being in a caring, reciprocal relationship with teaching faculty.
D. Balmer+4 more
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Team strategic philosophy: requiem for the infinite game
Deliberate accountability has arrived in the medical arena, producing an age of reward for measured performance and belief in publicising metrics to ensure clarity, with winning defined as hitting targets, whereby staff are incentivised by arbitrary ...
A. Powell+4 more
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Unveiling philosophy and social aspects of nanotechnology: A short review [PDF]
Philosophy has nurtured fundamental science by asking the right questions. This scientific growth has fuelled research in various domains and introduced diverse disciplines. Nanotechnology is an interdisciplinary domain with numerous applications ranging from medical diagnostics and food technology to electronics and psychology.
arxiv
What is a good health check? An interview study of health check providers’ views and practices
Background Health checks identify (risk factors for) disease in people without symptoms. They may be offered by the government through population screenings and by other providers to individual users as ‘personal health checks’.
Yrrah H. Stol+2 more
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