ethics

Dr. Cheryl L. Brown

September 28, 2018 by Cheryl Brown
department: Political Science and Public Administration

Cheryl BrownAssociate Professor
Department of Political Science and Public Administration

My research has focused on the intersectionality of emerging technologies and health data privacy and protection and emphasized privacy conceptualizations and health technology acceptance in comparative cultures. [read more=’Read more’ less=’Read less’] I am particularly interested in the application of technologies such as radio frequency identification (RFID), biometrics, artificial intelligence, autonomous systems, and blockchains and protecting and preserving data privacy in healthcare in diverse, regulatory systems. I examine the role of ethics-by-design in building trust and technology acceptance. I presented two research projects, “Building Bi-level Awareness and Public Trust to Implement Big Data in Mitochondrial Health and Disease Research: Comparing Privacy and Ethics in Global Research” and “Vascular Inflammation and Cardiovascular Risk Quantification and Monitoring in Internet of Vehicle Participant Technologies: Layered Privacy, Trust, and Security in Precision Care,” at the National Institutes of Health in 2016. The vascular inflammation research abstract was selected one of the twelve notable abstracts/posters among the 110 accepted scientific abstracts. I presented “RFID Implant Technology and Artificial Intelligence: Can We Spell Ethics and Trust?” at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Southeastern Michigan Conference on Ethics in Engineering in 2017. Related articles include “Health-care Data Protection and Biometric Authentication Policies: Comparative Culture and Technology Acceptance in China and the United States” in Review of Policy Research and the co-authored “Privacy-preserving Techniques of Genomic Data–A Survey” in Briefings in Bioinformatics, https://doi.org/10.1093/bib/bbx139 . As an invited participant, I contributed to the design of the health privacy sector of the 5th Cybersecurity Framework Workshop of the U. S. Department of Commerce National Institute of Standards and Technology in 2013. I was the lead PI in the big data and health disparities interdisciplinary team’s application for the National Science Foundation South Hub Big Data Awards in 2016. I am currently researching the role of privacy and ethics in healthcare data using blockchain technology and collaborating on the study of assistive technologies and robotic density in long-distance caregiving.[/read]

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keywords: ethicshealth technologyprivacytrust

Dr. Ruth Groenhout

September 28, 2018 by Ruth Groenhout
department: Philosophy

Distinguished Professor of Health Ethics
Department of Philosophy

My primary areas of research in healthcare ethics focus on gender, health systems and organizations, and health policy. [read more=’Read more’ less=’Read less’] I have a book coming out in 2019 that uses an ethics of care as a framework for analyzing policy and systems in health care. Other books include Connected Lives: Human Nature and an Ethics of Care, Transforming Care, Bioethics: A Reformed Look at Life and Death Choices, and Philosophy, Feminism, Faith. Recent articles include “Beauvoir and the Biological Body” in the Blackwell Companion to Simone de Beauvoir, “Of Medicine and Monsters: Rationing and an Ethics of Care” in Care Ethics and Political Theory and “Virtue and a Feminist Ethics of Care” in Virtues and Their Vices.[/read]

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keywords: ethicsgenderhealth policyhealth systems and organizations

Dr. Jonathan Marks

September 28, 2018 by Jonathan Marks
department: Anthropology
Jon Marks

 

Professor
Department of Anthropology

My research interests are centered on questions of human origins and human diversity, both of which are relevant, in different ways, to issues of modern health. [read more=’Read more’ less=’Read less’] My recent book Is Science Racist? (Polity Press, 2017) discusses the meaning of genetic differences among populations, and particularly their relationship to observed differences in health risks and behavior patterns. I have also written about the bio-ethical issues associated with taking genetic samples from indigenous peoples.
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keywords: bioanthropologyethicshuman genetics

Dr. Letha Victor

September 28, 2018 by Letha Victor
department: Religious Studies

Letha VictorAssistant Professor
Department of Religious Studies

My work lies at the intersections of religion and healing, both broadly construed. [read more=’Read more’ less=’Read less’] Trained as a socio-cultural anthropologist, my research projects since 2008 have centred on the Acholi sub-region of northern Uganda, where I have conducted extensive ethnographic fieldwork on postcolonial violence, haunting, human-spirit relations, and ethics. I am interested in a wide range of issues that include subjectivity, ethics, temporality, social change, religiosity, trauma and the cross-linguistic and cross-cultural legibility of suffering, witchcraft and conspiracy, and debates about morality, ritual expertise, and authenticity in Acholi society and beyond. Currently, I am working on a book manuscript about ghostly vengeance and spiritual pollution in contemporary post-war Acholi.[/read]

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keywords: culture and healthethicsreligiosity and ritual