Stuart McLennan
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Stuart McLennan
@stuartmclennan.bsky.social
Director of Research at the Chair of Ethics in Medicine and Health Technologies, Technical University of Munich. Views own
Led by the wonderful Marieke Bak we review these challenges in this new article "A scoping review of ethical aspects of public-private partnerships in digital health" out in npj Digital Medicine: www.nature.com/articles/s41...
A scoping review of ethical aspects of public-private partnerships in digital health - npj Digital Medicine
npj Digital Medicine - A scoping review of ethical aspects of public-private partnerships in digital health
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March 2, 2025 at 10:03 PM
The use of CPR in New Zealand: is it always lawful?
Stuart McLennan, Ron Paterson, PDG Skegg, Richard Aickin
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February 3, 2025 at 1:42 PM
We have established the Munich Embedded Ethics and Social Science Hub (MESH) to promote and develop the Embedded Ethics approach, which I co-direct with @amfiske.bsky.social and is managed by @theresawillem.bsky.social
We would love to hear from people working on similar approaches.
February 1, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Putting Embedded Ethics and Social Science into practice: the role of peer-to-peer relationships: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Putting Embedded Ethics and Social Science into practice: the role of peer-to-peer relationships
In response to the ethical and societal challenges of emerging technologies, there is a growing commitment to integrative socio-technical research. One such approach is embedded ethics and social s...
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February 1, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Embedded Ethics and the “Soft Impacts” of Technology: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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February 1, 2025 at 9:08 PM
In addition, there have been a few other articles reporting challenges and lessons learnt from implementing the approach:
February 1, 2025 at 9:08 PM
In late 2024, we published an article in Science and Engineering Ethics which presents a "Toolbox" of several methods that have proven helpful for embedding ethical and social science analysis and inquiry in practice: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Embedded Ethics in Practice: A Toolbox for Integrating the Analysis of Ethical and Social Issues into Healthcare AI Research - Science and Engineering Ethics
Integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into critical domains such as healthcare holds immense promise. Nevertheless, significant challenges must be addressed to avoid harm, promote the well-being of...
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February 1, 2025 at 9:08 PM
In an article in 2022 in BMC Medical Ethics, we outlined the fundamental features of embedded ethics, namely its aims, modes of integration, practices, and requisite expertise and training bmcmedethics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
Embedded ethics: a proposal for integrating ethics into the development of medical AI - BMC Medical Ethics
The emergence of ethical concerns surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) has led to an explosion of high-level ethical principles being published by a wide range of public and private organizations....
bmcmedethics.biomedcentral.com
February 1, 2025 at 9:08 PM
We first proposed the approach in 2020 in Nature Machine Intelligence which focused on AI development generally: www.nature.com/articles/s42...
An embedded ethics approach for AI development
Nature Machine Intelligence - There is a need to consider how AI developers can be practically assisted in identifying and addressing ethical issues. In this Comment, a group of AI engineers,...
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February 1, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Although the focus of early articles focused on AI and health technology development, we are increasingly using the approach in various areas, including public health research projects.
February 1, 2025 at 9:08 PM
This allows interdisciplinary collaboration between ethicists/social scientists and developers to identify and address ethical and social issues via an iterative and continuous process from the outset.
February 1, 2025 at 9:08 PM
The key element of the approach is having trained empirical ethicists and/or social scientists embedded among the project partner’s research and development processes to conduct empirical and normative analysis of ethical and social issues.
February 1, 2025 at 9:08 PM