ABOUT THE PROJECT
This project is a response to current trends in medicine, the increasing use of technology in all aspects of healthcare and the reshaping of healthcare institutions and practices in light of these new technologies. Convergence refers to the bringing together of formerly divergent practices, the development of technology and its application in the contexts of healthcare and medical research. Thus, our team works with researchers at Erasmus Medical Center, Erasmus University and Delft University of Technology who are involved in projects that involve such convergences.
We are tackling issues such as the ethics of continuous data collection, and of AI, machine learning and algorithms, as well as the ethics of personalized and precision medicine. Our objective is to proactively map and analyse the ethical issues arising from convergence research activities and ambitions - we thus work with and are funded through the Convergence for Health and Technology initiative.
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ABOUT THE TEAM
Our Convergence Ethics project team has three team leaders, or PIs, and three post-doctoral researchers. Together, their work in ethics comes from diverse perspectives and uses a variety of methodologies. The team has expertise in bioethics, value sensitive design, responsible innovation, clinical research ethics, medical ethics and the history and philosophy of medicine, philosophy of science and technology, environmental philosophy, gender studies and on questions of human nature and moral enhancement.
Postdoctoral Researcher @EMC
Moral and human enhancement, philosophy of psychiatry, bioethics, political philosophy.
Principal Investigator @TUD
Ethics in uncertainty, resilience, healthcare technology development & research integrity.
Postdoctoral Researcher @TUD
Values in Design, moral identities, invisible harms and regulations for technology design.
Principal Investigator @EMC
Ethics of new & emerging technologies, philosophy of medicine & bioethics.
Postdoctoral Researcher @TUD
Green bioethics, social justice, environmental philosophy, feminist & queer perspectives.
