Digital Twins for Trans People in Healthcare. Queer, Phenomenological and Bioethical Considerations

Result code in IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F67985955%3A_____%2F25%3A00617862" target="_blank" >RIV/67985955:_____/25:00617862 - isvavai.cz</a>

Result on the web

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1136/jme-2024-110403" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1136/jme-2024-110403</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jme-2024-110403" target="_blank" >10.1136/jme-2024-110403</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Digital Twins for Trans People in Healthcare. Queer, Phenomenological and Bioethical Considerations

Original language description

Healthcare is one of the domains in which artificial intelligence (AI) is already having a major impact. Of interest is the idea of the Digital Twin (DT), an AI-powered technology that generates a real-time representation of the patient’s body, offering the possibility of more personalised care. Our main thesis in this paper is that the DT does not merely represent the patient’s body but produces a specific body. We argue, from a philosophical perspective and an ethical-phenomenological approach, that the virtual body created by the DT has a major impact on one’s self-understanding, having consequences for gender expression and identification, and for health. This has deep implications for people who do not conform to gender normativity, e.g., trans individuals. We advocate that, with thoughtful development, DT technology can and should be empowering, contributing to better addressing the diversity of bodies and facilitating trans people’s experience in healthcare contexts.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60302 - Ethics (except ethics related to specific subfields)

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Journal of Medical Ethics

ISSN

0306-6800

e-ISSN

1473-4257

Volume of the periodical

51

Issue of the periodical within the volume

12

Country of publishing house

GB - UNITED KINGDOM

Number of pages

8

Pages from-to

795-802

UT code for WoS article

001437148900001

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-105000318810