Seppe Segers
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 6930560 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Seppe Segers |
| NOMBRES | Seppe |
| APELLIDO | Segers |
| FIRMA | SEGERS S |
| AFILIACIONES | Ghent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8231-6487 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 1 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2020 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
The Anger Paradox
This article starts from the question: how angry should physicians be? Since the literature so far has mostly focused on patient anger, we endeavor to turn bioethical attention to physician anger instead. After specifying our central question in four different ways—in terms of its normativity, its use of the term “physicians,” the implied patient‐directed nature of this anger, and the difference between feeling and behaving angrily—we posit the a…
Critical Bioethics of Space Exploration
(Bio)ethical analysis of space exploration calls for critical reflection on present‐day material and socio‐political contexts. In response to this requirement, this paper first asks how a critical bioethics of space can move beyond a basic four‐principles approach. Having set this initial framework, we arrive at the observation that in political and bioethical discourse a common tendency exists to explain away space activity as ‘inevitable’. This…
Reproducing Guilt
Feelings of guilt have been reported by (formerly) pregnant people, for example, after miscarriage, stillbirth, induced abortion, or preterm birth. However, it is sometimes held that they should not feel that way. In this article, the authors (a) scrutinize attributions of guilt, (b) problematize philosophical approaches to guilt—especially Thomas Scanlon’s approach—and moral emotions more broadly, and (c) criticize such theoretical-normative int…
Take another five. A response to Adams
Trapped in the promising role of digital twins
Anticipatory gaps challenge the public governance of heritable human genome editing
Considering public moral attitudes is a hallmark of the anticipatory governance of emerging biotechnologies, such as heritable human genome editing. However, such anticipatory governance often overlooks that future morality is open to change and that future generations may perform different moral assessments on the very biotechnologies we are trying to govern in the present. In this article, we identify an ‘anticipatory gap’ that has not been suf…
The information, control, and value models of mobile health‐driven empowerment
Mobile health tools are often said to empower users by providing them with the information they need to exercise control over their health. We aim to bring clarity to this claim, and in doing so explore the relationship between empowerment and autonomy. We have identified three distinct models embedded in the empowerment rhetoric: empowerment as information, empowerment as control, and empowerment as values. Each distinct model of empowerment giv…
Definitions as boundaries
Take five? A coherentist argument why medical AI does not require a new ethical principle
‘False hope’ in assisted reproduction
Despite the frequent invocation of ‘false hope’ and possible related moral concerns in the context of assisted reproduction technologies, a focused ethical and conceptual problematisation of this concept seems to be lacking. We argue that an invocation of ‘false hope’ only makes sense if the fulfilment of a desired outcome (eg, a successful fertility treatment) is impossible, and if it is attributed from an external perspective. The evaluation in…
Revisiting the ought implies can dictum in light of disruptive medical innovation
It is a dominant dictum in ethics that ‘ought implies can’ (OIC): if an agent morally ought to do an action, the agent must be capable of performing that action. Yet, with current technological developments, such as in direct-to-consumer genomics, big data analytics and wearable technologies, there may be reasons to reorient this ethical principle. It is our modest aim in this article to explore how the current wave of allegedly disruptive innova…
Value sensitive design and the artificial placenta
Artificial placenta technologies (also termed ‘artificial wombs’) for use in place of conventional neonatal intensive care are increasingly closer to first-in-human use. There is growing ethical interest in partial ectogestation (the use of an artificial placenta to continue gestation of an underdeveloped human entity extra uterum), however, there has been little reflection on the ethical issues in the design of the technology. While some have no…
Complication for a greener medical ethics code
Age‐related hearing loss and “hearables”
Rapid advances in digital hearing technologies, also known as hearables, are expected to disrupt the direct‐to‐consumer health market. For older adults with higher incidence of hearing loss, such disruption could reduce hearing problems, increase accessibility to hearing aids, and mitigate related stigmas. This paper delves into the intersection of disruptive innovation and hearables within the realm of biomedical ethics. Through a comprehensive …
Reproductive Technologies and family ties
In vitro fertilization (IVF) revolutionized procreation and family-making in the late 1970s by making possible the separation of conception from sex. Since the birth of the first “IVF baby” Louise Brown in 1978, techniques like IVF have routinized rapidly, against initial predictions: it is estimated that at least 12 million babies have been born with the help of IVF and other assisted reproductive technologies (ART).1 Furthermore, ART-related bi…
What you believe you want, may not be what the algorithm knows
NextGEM
The evolution of emerging technologies that use Radio Frequency Electromagnetic Field (RF-EMF) has increased the interest of the scientific community and society regarding the possible adverse effects on human health and the environment. This article provides NextGEM's vision to assure safety for EU citizens when employing existing and future EMF-based telecommunication technologies. This is accomplished by generating relevant knowledge that asce…
Robot Technology for the Elderly and the Value of Veracity
The curious case of “trust” in the light of changing doctor–patient relationships
The centrality of trust in traditional doctor–patient relationships has been criticized as inordinately paternalistic, yet in today's discussions about medical ethics—mostly in response to disruptive innovation in healthcare—trust reappears as an asset to enable empowerment. To turn away from paternalistic trust‐based doctor–patient relationships and to arrive at an empowerment‐based medical model, increasing reference is made to the importance o…
An ethical exploration of pregnancy related mHealth
Discussing social hierarchies and the importance of genetic ties
I am happy to comment on T S Petersen’s1 examination of the ‘individualization argument against non-medical egg freezing (NMEF)’. Petersen intervenes in the ethical discussion on egg freezing by critically reconsidering a specific type of argument against oocyte cryopreservation for reasons that are not directly related with medical issues. Petersen dissects the claim that such non-medical usage is ‘an individualistic and morally problematic solu…
Enthusiasm, concern and ambivalence in the Belgian public’s attitude towards in-vitro gametogenesis
The ethics of ectogenesis‐aided foetal treatment
In this paper, we aim to stimulate ethical debate about the morally relevant connection between ectogenesis and the foetus as a potential beneficiary of treatment. Ectogenesis could facilitate foetal interventions by treating the foetus independently of the pregnant woman and provide easier access to the foetus if interventions are required. The moral relevance hereof derives from the observation that, together with other developments in genetic …
The ethics of ectogenesis‐aided foetal treatment
In this paper, we aim to stimulate ethical debate about the morally relevant connection between ectogenesis and the foetus as a potential beneficiary of treatment. Ectogenesis could facilitate foetal interventions by treating the foetus independently of the pregnant woman and provide easier access to the foetus if interventions are required. The moral relevance hereof derives from the observation that, together with other developments in genetic …
An ethical exploration of pregnancy related mHealth
Discussing social hierarchies and the importance of genetic ties
I am happy to comment on T S Petersen’s1 examination of the ‘individualization argument against non-medical egg freezing (NMEF)’. Petersen intervenes in the ethical discussion on egg freezing by critically reconsidering a specific type of argument against oocyte cryopreservation for reasons that are not directly related with medical issues. Petersen dissects the claim that such non-medical usage is ‘an individualistic and morally problematic solu…
Enthusiasm, concern and ambivalence in the Belgian public’s attitude towards in-vitro gametogenesis
Robot Technology for the Elderly and the Value of Veracity
The curious case of “trust” in the light of changing doctor–patient relationships
The centrality of trust in traditional doctor–patient relationships has been criticized as inordinately paternalistic, yet in today's discussions about medical ethics—mostly in response to disruptive innovation in healthcare—trust reappears as an asset to enable empowerment. To turn away from paternalistic trust‐based doctor–patient relationships and to arrive at an empowerment‐based medical model, increasing reference is made to the importance o…
What you believe you want, may not be what the algorithm knows
NextGEM
The evolution of emerging technologies that use Radio Frequency Electromagnetic Field (RF-EMF) has increased the interest of the scientific community and society regarding the possible adverse effects on human health and the environment. This article provides NextGEM's vision to assure safety for EU citizens when employing existing and future EMF-based telecommunication technologies. This is accomplished by generating relevant knowledge that asce…
Take five? A coherentist argument why medical AI does not require a new ethical principle
‘False hope’ in assisted reproduction
Despite the frequent invocation of ‘false hope’ and possible related moral concerns in the context of assisted reproduction technologies, a focused ethical and conceptual problematisation of this concept seems to be lacking. We argue that an invocation of ‘false hope’ only makes sense if the fulfilment of a desired outcome (eg, a successful fertility treatment) is impossible, and if it is attributed from an external perspective. The evaluation in…
Revisiting the ought implies can dictum in light of disruptive medical innovation
It is a dominant dictum in ethics that ‘ought implies can’ (OIC): if an agent morally ought to do an action, the agent must be capable of performing that action. Yet, with current technological developments, such as in direct-to-consumer genomics, big data analytics and wearable technologies, there may be reasons to reorient this ethical principle. It is our modest aim in this article to explore how the current wave of allegedly disruptive innova…
Value sensitive design and the artificial placenta
Artificial placenta technologies (also termed ‘artificial wombs’) for use in place of conventional neonatal intensive care are increasingly closer to first-in-human use. There is growing ethical interest in partial ectogestation (the use of an artificial placenta to continue gestation of an underdeveloped human entity extra uterum), however, there has been little reflection on the ethical issues in the design of the technology. While some have no…
Complication for a greener medical ethics code
Age‐related hearing loss and “hearables”
Rapid advances in digital hearing technologies, also known as hearables, are expected to disrupt the direct‐to‐consumer health market. For older adults with higher incidence of hearing loss, such disruption could reduce hearing problems, increase accessibility to hearing aids, and mitigate related stigmas. This paper delves into the intersection of disruptive innovation and hearables within the realm of biomedical ethics. Through a comprehensive …
Reproductive Technologies and family ties
In vitro fertilization (IVF) revolutionized procreation and family-making in the late 1970s by making possible the separation of conception from sex. Since the birth of the first “IVF baby” Louise Brown in 1978, techniques like IVF have routinized rapidly, against initial predictions: it is estimated that at least 12 million babies have been born with the help of IVF and other assisted reproductive technologies (ART).1 Furthermore, ART-related bi…
Take another five. A response to Adams
Trapped in the promising role of digital twins
Anticipatory gaps challenge the public governance of heritable human genome editing
Considering public moral attitudes is a hallmark of the anticipatory governance of emerging biotechnologies, such as heritable human genome editing. However, such anticipatory governance often overlooks that future morality is open to change and that future generations may perform different moral assessments on the very biotechnologies we are trying to govern in the present. In this article, we identify an ‘anticipatory gap’ that has not been suf…
The information, control, and value models of mobile health‐driven empowerment
Mobile health tools are often said to empower users by providing them with the information they need to exercise control over their health. We aim to bring clarity to this claim, and in doing so explore the relationship between empowerment and autonomy. We have identified three distinct models embedded in the empowerment rhetoric: empowerment as information, empowerment as control, and empowerment as values. Each distinct model of empowerment giv…
Definitions as boundaries
The Anger Paradox
This article starts from the question: how angry should physicians be? Since the literature so far has mostly focused on patient anger, we endeavor to turn bioethical attention to physician anger instead. After specifying our central question in four different ways—in terms of its normativity, its use of the term “physicians,” the implied patient‐directed nature of this anger, and the difference between feeling and behaving angrily—we posit the a…
Critical Bioethics of Space Exploration
(Bio)ethical analysis of space exploration calls for critical reflection on present‐day material and socio‐political contexts. In response to this requirement, this paper first asks how a critical bioethics of space can move beyond a basic four‐principles approach. Having set this initial framework, we arrive at the observation that in political and bioethical discourse a common tendency exists to explain away space activity as ‘inevitable’. This…
Reproducing Guilt
Feelings of guilt have been reported by (formerly) pregnant people, for example, after miscarriage, stillbirth, induced abortion, or preterm birth. However, it is sometimes held that they should not feel that way. In this article, the authors (a) scrutinize attributions of guilt, (b) problematize philosophical approaches to guilt—especially Thomas Scanlon’s approach—and moral emotions more broadly, and (c) criticize such theoretical-normative int…
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