Michiel De Proost
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 933424 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Michiel De Proost |
| PRENOMES | Michiel |
| SOBRENOME | De Proost |
| ASSINATURA | DE PROOST M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Ghent University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0545-8515 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 0 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2021 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 0 |
‘I think I’m some kind of unicorn’. An analysis of forum posts expressing an unfulfilled desire to have children as a single man
Feminist scholarship on reproduction has often focused on women’s experiences, leaving men’s reproductive desires comparatively underexplored. This article examines how single men articulate and negotiate a desire for fatherhood in openly accessible online forums. This study uses Lohan’s (2015) feminism-informed Critical Studies of Men and Masculinities (CSM) as a theoretical framework, drawing on late-modern theories of intimacy. We analyse how …
Defining the limits of income and wealth of the healthcare professional
Forms of life, crisis, and technomoral change
Empowerment and resistance in bioethics
A recurring idea in the bioethics literature on new digital medical technologies is one of 'empowerment'. One issue that has been conspicuously absent from these discussions relates to resistance. To shine a light on this void in the bioethics field, the present paper highlights the importance of this concept within the phenomenon of do-it-yourself (DIY) medicine, that we broadly define as an activity where individuals create or appropriate a pro…
Take another five. A response to Adams
Trapped in the promising role of digital twins
Definitions as boundaries
Mobile Health Technology, Empowerment, and Self-Respect
Mobile health (mHealth) technologies are increasingly advertised by companies as means for health and wellbeing empowerment. Although several scholars have analyzed the notion of empowerment at play in mHealth discourses and identified crucial elements for its fulfillment, one theoretical framework that is especially absent in this discussion is that of relational theories of selfhood developed in feminist philosophy. In this article, the author …
‘Nice to meet you … shall we have a baby?’
This paper attempts to provide insight into the social interpretation of pre-conceptually agreed-upon co-parenting (i.e. 'PACT', 'elective co-parenting', 'platonic co-parenting' or 'intentional co-parenting') families through a critical investigation of UK newspaper portrayals using reflexive thematic analysis with special attention paid to ascriptions of responsibility. Two main themes were identified: 'untraditionally conventional after all', a…
Take five? A coherentist argument why medical AI does not require a new ethical principle
Machine learning for mental health diagnosis
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…
Complication for a greener medical ethics code
Another “turn” in bioethics? A plea for methodological continuity
A growing trend in bioethics highlights the importance of using big data science methods to advance normative insight. This has been called the “digital turn” in bioethics by Salloch and Ursin. Automated data processing can, for example, detect significant patterns of correlation that have escaped the attention of human scholars. Although we agree that such technological innovations could bolster existing methods in empirical bioethics (EB), we a…
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 …
Egg freezing, genetic relatedness, and motherhood
Genetic relatedness figures heavily in contemporary ethical debates on egg freezing, although the arguments lack empirical‐based evidence. Rather than adding another theoretical view on the moral relevance of genetic connections, this paper instead proposes an empirically grounded perspective based on two independent qualitative interview‐based studies conducted in Belgium and France. Three themes emerge from our empirical data: (1) prioritizing …
It gives me time, but does it give me freedom?”
Why we should talk about institutional (dis)trustworthiness and medical machine learning
Ubuntu as a complementary perspective for addressing epistemic (in)justice in medical machine learning
Male Fertility-Related mHealth
Male fertility–related mHealth (MFmHealth), including smartphone applications that allow men to test their fertility at home, is getting some attention now and then. In this commentary, I argue that MFmHealth technology has the potential to undermine established norms around male reproduction but cannot be examined using traditional individualist frameworks in bioethics. Instead, theoretical literature on the concept of vulnerability in feminist …
Michiel De Proost Wrijvingen van autonomie en toekomstige vruchtbaarheid
Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community
Beyond individualisation
Recently, Petersen provided in this journal a critical discussion of individualisation arguments in the context of social egg freezing. This argument underlines the idea that it is morally problematic to use individual technological solutions to solve societal challenges that women face. So far, however, there is a lack of empirical data to contextualise his central normative claim that individualisation arguments are implausible. This article di…
Freezing Fertility
Find information about UTP Journals. University of Toronto Press is Canada’s leading academic publisher and one of the largest university presses in North America, with particular strengths in the social sciences, humanities, and business. The Book Publishing Division is widely recognized in Canada for its strength in history, political science, sociology, Indigenous studies, and cultural studies. Internationally, UTP is a leading publisher of me…
Integrating intersectionality into autonomy
The field of bioethics struggles with the complexity of diversity and power differences. ‘Intersectionality in Clinical Medicine: The Need for a Conceptual Framework’ (Wilson et al., 2019) and its accompanying commentaries, though inventive and thought-provoking, overlook key principles of biomedical ethics. In this paper, I reflect on the debate and consider how an intersectional approach could inform normative theorizing. Traditional principlis…
Nothing will stop me from giving the gift of life’
Online spaces are increasingly important for our collective consciousness and provide an opportunity to document changing ideas, subjectivities and experiences surrounding new reproductive technologies. This paper reports on the first study of egg donation and online discussion boards in UK-based forums. Using thematic analysis, we investigated how donors use online forums and explored how they present themselves as possible donors in online spac…
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Integrating intersectionality into autonomy
The field of bioethics struggles with the complexity of diversity and power differences. ‘Intersectionality in Clinical Medicine: The Need for a Conceptual Framework’ (Wilson et al., 2019) and its accompanying commentaries, though inventive and thought-provoking, overlook key principles of biomedical ethics. In this paper, I reflect on the debate and consider how an intersectional approach could inform normative theorizing. Traditional principlis…
Nothing will stop me from giving the gift of life’
Online spaces are increasingly important for our collective consciousness and provide an opportunity to document changing ideas, subjectivities and experiences surrounding new reproductive technologies. This paper reports on the first study of egg donation and online discussion boards in UK-based forums. Using thematic analysis, we investigated how donors use online forums and explored how they present themselves as possible donors in online spac…
Michiel De Proost Wrijvingen van autonomie en toekomstige vruchtbaarheid
Amsterdam University Press is a leading publisher of academic books, journals and textbooks in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Our aim is to make current research available to scholars, students, innovators, and the general public. AUP stands for scholarly excellence, global presence, and engagement with the international academic community
Beyond individualisation
Recently, Petersen provided in this journal a critical discussion of individualisation arguments in the context of social egg freezing. This argument underlines the idea that it is morally problematic to use individual technological solutions to solve societal challenges that women face. So far, however, there is a lack of empirical data to contextualise his central normative claim that individualisation arguments are implausible. This article di…
Freezing Fertility
Find information about UTP Journals. University of Toronto Press is Canada’s leading academic publisher and one of the largest university presses in North America, with particular strengths in the social sciences, humanities, and business. The Book Publishing Division is widely recognized in Canada for its strength in history, political science, sociology, Indigenous studies, and cultural studies. Internationally, UTP is a leading publisher of me…
Ubuntu as a complementary perspective for addressing epistemic (in)justice in medical machine learning
Male Fertility-Related mHealth
Male fertility–related mHealth (MFmHealth), including smartphone applications that allow men to test their fertility at home, is getting some attention now and then. In this commentary, I argue that MFmHealth technology has the potential to undermine established norms around male reproduction but cannot be examined using traditional individualist frameworks in bioethics. Instead, theoretical literature on the concept of vulnerability in feminist …
Take five? A coherentist argument why medical AI does not require a new ethical principle
Machine learning for mental health diagnosis
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…
Complication for a greener medical ethics code
Another “turn” in bioethics? A plea for methodological continuity
A growing trend in bioethics highlights the importance of using big data science methods to advance normative insight. This has been called the “digital turn” in bioethics by Salloch and Ursin. Automated data processing can, for example, detect significant patterns of correlation that have escaped the attention of human scholars. Although we agree that such technological innovations could bolster existing methods in empirical bioethics (EB), we a…
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 …
Egg freezing, genetic relatedness, and motherhood
Genetic relatedness figures heavily in contemporary ethical debates on egg freezing, although the arguments lack empirical‐based evidence. Rather than adding another theoretical view on the moral relevance of genetic connections, this paper instead proposes an empirically grounded perspective based on two independent qualitative interview‐based studies conducted in Belgium and France. Three themes emerge from our empirical data: (1) prioritizing …
It gives me time, but does it give me freedom?”
Why we should talk about institutional (dis)trustworthiness and medical machine learning
Take another five. A response to Adams
Trapped in the promising role of digital twins
Definitions as boundaries
Mobile Health Technology, Empowerment, and Self-Respect
Mobile health (mHealth) technologies are increasingly advertised by companies as means for health and wellbeing empowerment. Although several scholars have analyzed the notion of empowerment at play in mHealth discourses and identified crucial elements for its fulfillment, one theoretical framework that is especially absent in this discussion is that of relational theories of selfhood developed in feminist philosophy. In this article, the author …
‘Nice to meet you … shall we have a baby?’
This paper attempts to provide insight into the social interpretation of pre-conceptually agreed-upon co-parenting (i.e. 'PACT', 'elective co-parenting', 'platonic co-parenting' or 'intentional co-parenting') families through a critical investigation of UK newspaper portrayals using reflexive thematic analysis with special attention paid to ascriptions of responsibility. Two main themes were identified: 'untraditionally conventional after all', a…
‘I think I’m some kind of unicorn’. An analysis of forum posts expressing an unfulfilled desire to have children as a single man
Feminist scholarship on reproduction has often focused on women’s experiences, leaving men’s reproductive desires comparatively underexplored. This article examines how single men articulate and negotiate a desire for fatherhood in openly accessible online forums. This study uses Lohan’s (2015) feminism-informed Critical Studies of Men and Masculinities (CSM) as a theoretical framework, drawing on late-modern theories of intimacy. We analyse how …
Defining the limits of income and wealth of the healthcare professional
Forms of life, crisis, and technomoral change
Empowerment and resistance in bioethics
A recurring idea in the bioethics literature on new digital medical technologies is one of 'empowerment'. One issue that has been conspicuously absent from these discussions relates to resistance. To shine a light on this void in the bioethics field, the present paper highlights the importance of this concept within the phenomenon of do-it-yourself (DIY) medicine, that we broadly define as an activity where individuals create or appropriate a pro…
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