Ruhr-Universität Bochum

Challenges ahead… publication forthcoming

It is with pleasure that we announce some big steps in our efforts to establish an interdisciplinary discourse on ethical dimensions of socially assistive technologies. After signing publication agreement and with generous help of our funder – the German Ministry of Education and Research – we are now looking forward to publishing with De Gruyter Open Access.

Contributions will include perspectives from nursing science, social sciences, philosophy, medical ethics, economics and law to present an – to our knowledge – first and comprehensive overview on different aspects of the use and implementation of socially assistive technologies from an ethical perspective. It will combine practically relevant insights and examples from current research and development with ethical analysis to uncover exemplary moral tipping points between promotion of participation or well-being and risks and damages to these values. Healthcare professionals involved in implementation of smart technologies as well as scholars from the field of humanities, nursing and medicine, interested in the discussions on ethics and technology in healthcare, will benefit from this new contribution.

We are very much looking forward to this publication and like to thank all of our contributors and supporters for their continous work.