Suzanne Metselaar
Biographic Data
| ID | 6677972 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Suzanne Metselaar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Suzanne |
| FAMILY NAME | Metselaar |
| SIGNATURE | METSELAAR S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8655-7082 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Indonesian concept of ikhtiar: Implications for palliative care practice
Ethical Expertise Before and After Medically Assisted Dying: The Informal and Formal Role of the Ethicist in the Netherlands
Although we have a long‐standing and well‐institutionalized practice of medical aid in dying (MAID) in the Netherlands, it is insufficiently clarified which goals ethicists should pursue in the context of assisted dying, and which competencies they need to fulfil their role(s). We sought to contribute to this clarification. We argue that both in anticipation and in evaluation of MAID, ethicists fulfil a role that is highly valuable to good MAID p…
Addressing spirituality-related moral challenges in palliative care: Perspectives of spiritual counselors
Spiritual beliefs are increasingly important toward the end-of-life as they shape perspectives on good care, life, and death. However, in pluralistic societies, the spiritual beliefs of patients and care providers may differ. Care providers can find it difficult to be responsive to spiritual diversity and to how different belief systems of patients and their families may influence perspectives on care and dying. This can lead to moral challenges.…
Promising for patients or deeply disturbing? The ethical and legal aspects of deepfake therapy
Deepfakes are hyper-realistic but fabricated videos created with the use of artificial intelligence. In the context of psychotherapy, the first studies on using deepfake technology are emerging, with potential applications including grief counselling and treatment for sexual violence-related trauma. This paper explores these applications from the perspective of medical ethics and health law. First, we question whether deepfake therapy can truly c…
Does a lack of emotions make chatbots unfit to be psychotherapists
Mental health chatbots (MHCBs) designed to support individuals in coping with mental health issues are rapidly advancing. Currently, these MHCBs are predominantly used in commercial rather than clinical contexts, but this might change soon. The question is whether this use is ethically desirable. This paper addresses a critical yet understudied concern: assuming that MHCBs cannot have genuine emotions, how this assumption may affect psychotherapy…
Translational bioethics as a two‐way street. Developing clinical ethics support instruments with and for healthcare practitioners
This article discusses an approach to translational bioethics (TB) that is concerned with the adaptation—or ‘translation’—of concepts, theories and methods from bioethics to practical contexts, in order to support ‘non‐bioethicists’, such as researchers and healthcare practitioners, in dealing with their ethical issues themselves. Specifically, it goes into the participatory development of clinical ethics support (CES) instruments that respond to…
Circles of Care for Safety: A Care Ethics Approach to Safe-by-Design
Safe-by-Design is an approach to engineering that aims to integrate the value of safety in the design and development of new technologies. It does so by integrating knowledge of potential dangers in the design process and developing methods to design undesirable effects out of the innovation. Recent discussions have highlighted several challenges in conceptualizing safety and integrating the value into the design process. Therefore, some have arg…
Commentary 1: Informed Consent of Research Participants: The Gap between Regulations and Reality
Commentary 2: From Observation to Joint Normative Analysis—Dialogical Empirical Ethics Research
How Moral Case Deliberation Supports Good Clinical Decision Making
In clinical decision making, facts are presented and discussed, preferably in the context of both evidence-based medicine and patients' values. Because clinicians' values also have a role in determining the best courses of action, we argue that reflecting on both patients' and professionals' values fosters good clinical decision making, particularly in situations of moral uncertainty. Moral case deliberation, a form of clinical ethics support, ca…
How Should Decision Aids Be Used During Counseling to Help Patients Who Are “Genetically at Risk”
People with genetic predispositions to disease are faced with uncertainty about whether, when, and to what extent an illness will actually develop. This prognostic uncertainty, combined with knowledge that preventative interventions (eg, risk-reducing surgeries for familial cancer syndromes) could significantly affect people's lives, renders prevention decisions especially challenging. This article illuminates ethical questions about the use of d…
When Neighbours Become Numbers Levinas and the Inhospitality of Dutch Asylum Policy
When Neighbours Become Numbers Levinas and the Inhospitality of Dutch Asylum Policy
Commentary 1: Informed Consent of Research Participants: The Gap between Regulations and Reality
Commentary 2: From Observation to Joint Normative Analysis—Dialogical Empirical Ethics Research
How Moral Case Deliberation Supports Good Clinical Decision Making
In clinical decision making, facts are presented and discussed, preferably in the context of both evidence-based medicine and patients' values. Because clinicians' values also have a role in determining the best courses of action, we argue that reflecting on both patients' and professionals' values fosters good clinical decision making, particularly in situations of moral uncertainty. Moral case deliberation, a form of clinical ethics support, ca…
How Should Decision Aids Be Used During Counseling to Help Patients Who Are “Genetically at Risk”
People with genetic predispositions to disease are faced with uncertainty about whether, when, and to what extent an illness will actually develop. This prognostic uncertainty, combined with knowledge that preventative interventions (eg, risk-reducing surgeries for familial cancer syndromes) could significantly affect people's lives, renders prevention decisions especially challenging. This article illuminates ethical questions about the use of d…
Circles of Care for Safety: A Care Ethics Approach to Safe-by-Design
Safe-by-Design is an approach to engineering that aims to integrate the value of safety in the design and development of new technologies. It does so by integrating knowledge of potential dangers in the design process and developing methods to design undesirable effects out of the innovation. Recent discussions have highlighted several challenges in conceptualizing safety and integrating the value into the design process. Therefore, some have arg…
Does a lack of emotions make chatbots unfit to be psychotherapists
Mental health chatbots (MHCBs) designed to support individuals in coping with mental health issues are rapidly advancing. Currently, these MHCBs are predominantly used in commercial rather than clinical contexts, but this might change soon. The question is whether this use is ethically desirable. This paper addresses a critical yet understudied concern: assuming that MHCBs cannot have genuine emotions, how this assumption may affect psychotherapy…
Translational bioethics as a two‐way street. Developing clinical ethics support instruments with and for healthcare practitioners
This article discusses an approach to translational bioethics (TB) that is concerned with the adaptation—or ‘translation’—of concepts, theories and methods from bioethics to practical contexts, in order to support ‘non‐bioethicists’, such as researchers and healthcare practitioners, in dealing with their ethical issues themselves. Specifically, it goes into the participatory development of clinical ethics support (CES) instruments that respond to…
Addressing spirituality-related moral challenges in palliative care: Perspectives of spiritual counselors
Spiritual beliefs are increasingly important toward the end-of-life as they shape perspectives on good care, life, and death. However, in pluralistic societies, the spiritual beliefs of patients and care providers may differ. Care providers can find it difficult to be responsive to spiritual diversity and to how different belief systems of patients and their families may influence perspectives on care and dying. This can lead to moral challenges.…
Promising for patients or deeply disturbing? The ethical and legal aspects of deepfake therapy
Deepfakes are hyper-realistic but fabricated videos created with the use of artificial intelligence. In the context of psychotherapy, the first studies on using deepfake technology are emerging, with potential applications including grief counselling and treatment for sexual violence-related trauma. This paper explores these applications from the perspective of medical ethics and health law. First, we question whether deepfake therapy can truly c…
Indonesian concept of ikhtiar: Implications for palliative care practice
Ethical Expertise Before and After Medically Assisted Dying: The Informal and Formal Role of the Ethicist in the Netherlands
Although we have a long‐standing and well‐institutionalized practice of medical aid in dying (MAID) in the Netherlands, it is insufficiently clarified which goals ethicists should pursue in the context of assisted dying, and which competencies they need to fulfil their role(s). We sought to contribute to this clarification. We argue that both in anticipation and in evaluation of MAID, ethicists fulfil a role that is highly valuable to good MAID p…
Psychology (8 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Engineering ethics (6 works) · Ethics in medical practice (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Ethics and Legal Issues in Pediatric Healthcare (3 works) · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works)