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June 20, 2022

Tinkering with healthcare technologies. Interactive redesign of bio-medical artefacts from a crip techno-science perspective

In this exercise, students will engage with ethical issues in the design and innovation of healthcare technologies through a hands-on interactive tinkering workshop. Using a wide variety of scrap materials, students collaborating in small groups will alter existing healthcare technical artefacts in an effort to promote the values of inclusivity, accessibility, and social justice, and to question ableist assumptions surrounding medical artefacts. The interactive hands-on workshop is deepened through an engagement with stakeholder testimonials as well as crip techno-science and Warm Technology theories.

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Janna van Grunsven, Samantha Marie Copeland, Trijsje Franssen, Lavinia Marin, Cristina Richie

May 25, 2021

Risk Ethics

Risk ethics is a domain of ethics that investigates ethical aspects of risks and technological risks in particular. In order to avoid potentially harmful activities as much as possible, risk assessments need to be made. Technologies which, for instance, might lead to accidents or pollution, should be assessed so that these technologies can be improved. Risk ethics aims to provide insights into to the moral aspects of risk.

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Trijsje Franssen

September 28, 2020

Norms

Norms are rules of behaviour. They indicate what should or should not be done, how to act, and how to treat one another in a given situation. There are different kinds of norms – moral, legal, conventional, personal, and more.

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Trijsje Franssen

August 17, 2020

Virtue Ethics

Virtue ethics focuses on how to be a good person. Virtues are good or desirable human characteristics, such as courage and honesty. Virtue ethics then concentrates upon which characteristics one should have or develop to be a moral person. Whereas other ethical theories concentrate on the question how to act or how to make the right decision, virtue ethics is thus about having the right character.

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Trijsje Franssen

August 17, 2020

Virtues

A virtue is an excellent character trait or quality, such as courage, honesty and creativity. Virtues are expressed in action, and practice is essential: just as you need to practice drawing in order to become a designer, you need to practice in acting virtuously in order to cultivate virtues. To truly ‘possess’ a virtue means it is deeply ingrained in your personality – you cannot have half a virtue. A courageous person is not just occasionally courageous. A person who sometimes keeps his promise does not have the virtue of trustworthiness.

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Trijsje Franssen

June 23, 2020

Duty Ethics/ Deontology

According to duty ethics, the answer to the question whether an action is morally right or wrong depends upon our ‘duty’: a certain moral rule, law or norm such as “you should not lie”. The goodness of an action is thus independent of the consequences. It is determined by whether we act in accordance with such a moral rule.

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Trijsje Franssen

June 23, 2020

Values

Values are deeply held beliefs, goals and ideals that indicate how people should behave.

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Trijsje Franssen

June 14, 2020

Consequentialism

Consequentialism is the view that the moral rightness or wrongness of an action depends on the consequences of that action. An action is morally right if the positive (good) consequences outweigh the negative (bad) consequences, and an action is morally wrong if the negative consequences outweigh the positive consequences.

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Trijsje Franssen

February 6, 2020

Personalisation on Social Media - Student handout

In a public letter published on Social Media and then later in The Washington Post (December 2018), social media user Gilian expresses concern over the emotional distress caused by online advertising algorithms. These continued to show baby-related products to her after she had gone through the experience of pregnancy loss. The text of the letter became viral on social media.

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Lavinia Marin, Trijsje Franssen

February 6, 2020

Personalisation on Social Media - teacher version

In a public letter published on Social Media and then later in The Washington Post (December 2018), social media user Gilian expresses concern over the emotional distress caused by online advertising algorithms. These continued to show baby-related products to her after she had gone through the experience of pregnancy loss. The text of the letter became viral on social media.

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Lavinia Marin, Trijsje Franssen