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The Ethics of Enabling Technology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 May 2007

SVEN OVE HANSSON
SVEN OVE HANSSON
Affiliation:
Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden
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Healthcare depends increasingly on advanced medical technology. In addition, other forms of technology contribute to determine how our lives are influenced by disease and disability. The extent to which persons with impaired bodily functions are forced to live their lives differently than other people depends to a large part on a variety of technologies, from wheelchairs to computer interfaces, from hearing aids to garage doors. This wide-ranging influence of technology has important ethical aspects, but has seldom been discussed in bioethics, the ethics of technology, or other branches of applied ethics.

Type
SPECIAL SECTION: TECHNOLOGY AND THE BODY: LINKING LIFE AND TECHNOLOGY
Information
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 16 , Issue 3 , July 2007 , pp. 257 - 267
Copyright
© 2007 Cambridge University Press

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