Anita Ho
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 6205447 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Anita Ho |
| PRENOMES | Anita |
| SOBRENOME | Ho |
| ASSINATURA | HO A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9797-1326 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 18 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 13 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 18 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1976 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Bioethics and the World Order
The post‐1945 world order is standardly pictured as a Westphalian system, in which each state is equal under the law with sovereign authority over its territories. This paper argues that the Westphalian system is changing and examines the implications for bioethics. We show that cross‐border health, economic, ecologic, and sociopolitical risks defy a Westphalian view and propose an alternative approach that draws insights from Chinese‐Confucian t…
Ethical concerns around privacy and data security in AI health monitoring for Parkinson’s disease
AI and the falling sky
This paper argues that the headline-grabbing nature of existential risk (X-Risk) diverts attention away from immediate artificial intelligence (AI) threats, including fairly disseminating AI risks and benefits and justly transitioning towards AI-centred societies. Section I introduces a working definition of X-Risk, considers its likelihood and explores possible subtexts. It highlights conflicts of interest that arise when tech luminaries lead et…
Stoking fears of AI X-Risk (while forgetting justice here and now)
Digital Humans to Combat Loneliness and Social Isolation
Social isolation and loneliness are growing concerns around the globe that put people at increased risk of disease and early death. One much‐touted approach to addressing them is deploying artificially intelligent agents to serve as companions for socially isolated and lonely people. Focusing on digital humans, we consider evidence and ethical arguments for and against this approach. We set forth and defend public health policies that respond to …
Nancy S. Jecker, Zohar Lederman, and Anita Ho reply
This letter replies to the letter “Colonial and Neocolonial Barriers to Companion Digital Humans in Africa,” by Luís Cordeiro‐Rodrigues, in the same, May‐June 2024, issue of the Hastings Center Report
Procedural fairness for radiotherapy priority setting in a low resource context
Radiotherapy is an essential component of cancer treatment, yet many countries do not have adequate capacity to serve their populations. This mismatch between demand and supply creates the need for priority setting. There is no widely accepted system to guide patient prioritization for radiotherapy in a low resource context. In the absence of consensus on allocation principles, fair procedures for priority setting should be established. Research …
Relational Solidarity and the Covid-19 Pandemic
"Relational Solidarity and the COVID-19 Pandemic." IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, 15(1), pp. 117–118
Global Disparity and Solidarity in a Pandemic
While the domestic effect of structural racism and other social vulnerabilities on Covid‐19 mortality in the United States has received some attention, there has been much less discussion (with some notable exceptions) of how structural global inequalities will further exacerbate Covid‐related health disparity across the world. This may be partially due to the delayed availability of accurate and comparable data from overwhelmed systems, particul…
Deep Ethical Learning
From predicting medical conditions to administering health behavior interventions, artificial intelligence technologies are being developed to enhance patient care and outcomes. However, as Mélanie Terrasse and coauthors caution in an article in this issue of the Hastings Center Report, an overreliance on virtual technologies may depersonalize medical interactions and erode therapeutic relationships. The increasing expectation that patients will …
Investigating Trust, Expertise, and Epistemic Injustice in Chronic Pain
Reconciling Patient Safety and Epistemic Humility
In this issue of the Hastings Center Report, Joshua Rager and Peter Schwartz suggest using opioid treatment agreements as public health monitoring tools to inform patients about “the requirements entailed by undergoing opioid therapy,” rather than as contractual agreements to alter patients’ individual behavior or to benefit them directly. Because Rager and Schwartz's argument presents suspected OTA violations as a justification to stop providing…
Women’s Health and Human Rights
Journal Article Women's Health and Human Rights: Converging Avenues for Action in East Africa Get access Carol Pavlish, Carol Pavlish Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Elena Ateva, Elena Ateva Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Anita Ho Anita Ho * Carol Pavlish ([email protected]) is a faculty member in ethics and social justice in the School of Nursing at the Uni…
Assessment of Capacity to Consent by Nurses Who Deliver Health Care to Patients Who Misuse Substances
This qualitative study explored the current practice that nurses use to assess capacity to consent to health care (CTC-HC) in street outreach settings. Key informant interviews were conducted with a purposive sample of nurses from each of British Columbia's five regional health authorities, allowing nurses to describe their lived experiences with assessing CTC-HC. Content analysis was used to summarize information captured in the data. A total of…
Trusting experts and epistemic humility in disability
It is generally accepted that the therapeutic relationship between professionals and patients is one of trust. Nonetheless, some patient groups carry certain social vulnerabilities that can be exacerbated when they extend trust to health-care professionals. In exploring the epistemic and ethical implications of expert status, this paper examines how calls to trust may increase epistemic oppression and perpetuate the vulnerability of people with i…
Indivisibility of Accountability and Empowerment in Tackling Gender-Based Violence
Informed by the capabilities approach and our own ethnographic research study conducted in collaboration with an international non-governmental organization that manages a Rwandan refugee camp, this article argues that accountability and empowerment play a dual and conditional relationship in human rights protection. On the one hand, accountability cannot be ensured when people lack the power to make their own choices and demand their rights; on …
Relational autonomy or undue pressure? Family’s role in medical decision‐making
The intertwining ideas of self‐determination and well‐being have received tremendous support in western bioethics. They have been used to reject medical paternalism and to justify patients’ rights to give informed consent (or refusal) and execute advanced directives. It is frequently argued that everyone is thoroughly unique, and as patients are most knowledgeable of and invested in their own interests, they should be the ones to make voluntary d…
Television advertising and drug use
Television advertising and drug use. B Peterson, J B Kuriansky, C S Konheim, R S Anderson, J Tesar, R N Podell, A Ho, and N M CowanCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.66.10.975 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Indivisibility of Accountability and Empowerment in Tackling Gender-Based Violence
Informed by the capabilities approach and our own ethnographic research study conducted in collaboration with an international non-governmental organization that manages a Rwandan refugee camp, this article argues that accountability and empowerment play a dual and conditional relationship in human rights protection. On the one hand, accountability cannot be ensured when people lack the power to make their own choices and demand their rights; on …
Television advertising and drug use
Television advertising and drug use. B Peterson, J B Kuriansky, C S Konheim, R S Anderson, J Tesar, R N Podell, A Ho, and N M CowanCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.66.10.975 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Television advertising and drug use
Television advertising and drug use. B Peterson, J B Kuriansky, C S Konheim, R S Anderson, J Tesar, R N Podell, A Ho, and N M CowanCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.66.10.975 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Relational autonomy or undue pressure? Family’s role in medical decision‐making
The intertwining ideas of self‐determination and well‐being have received tremendous support in western bioethics. They have been used to reject medical paternalism and to justify patients’ rights to give informed consent (or refusal) and execute advanced directives. It is frequently argued that everyone is thoroughly unique, and as patients are most knowledgeable of and invested in their own interests, they should be the ones to make voluntary d…
Trusting experts and epistemic humility in disability
It is generally accepted that the therapeutic relationship between professionals and patients is one of trust. Nonetheless, some patient groups carry certain social vulnerabilities that can be exacerbated when they extend trust to health-care professionals. In exploring the epistemic and ethical implications of expert status, this paper examines how calls to trust may increase epistemic oppression and perpetuate the vulnerability of people with i…
Indivisibility of Accountability and Empowerment in Tackling Gender-Based Violence
Informed by the capabilities approach and our own ethnographic research study conducted in collaboration with an international non-governmental organization that manages a Rwandan refugee camp, this article argues that accountability and empowerment play a dual and conditional relationship in human rights protection. On the one hand, accountability cannot be ensured when people lack the power to make their own choices and demand their rights; on …
Assessment of Capacity to Consent by Nurses Who Deliver Health Care to Patients Who Misuse Substances
This qualitative study explored the current practice that nurses use to assess capacity to consent to health care (CTC-HC) in street outreach settings. Key informant interviews were conducted with a purposive sample of nurses from each of British Columbia's five regional health authorities, allowing nurses to describe their lived experiences with assessing CTC-HC. Content analysis was used to summarize information captured in the data. A total of…
Investigating Trust, Expertise, and Epistemic Injustice in Chronic Pain
Reconciling Patient Safety and Epistemic Humility
In this issue of the Hastings Center Report, Joshua Rager and Peter Schwartz suggest using opioid treatment agreements as public health monitoring tools to inform patients about “the requirements entailed by undergoing opioid therapy,” rather than as contractual agreements to alter patients’ individual behavior or to benefit them directly. Because Rager and Schwartz's argument presents suspected OTA violations as a justification to stop providing…
Women’s Health and Human Rights
Journal Article Women's Health and Human Rights: Converging Avenues for Action in East Africa Get access Carol Pavlish, Carol Pavlish Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Elena Ateva, Elena Ateva Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Anita Ho Anita Ho * Carol Pavlish ([email protected]) is a faculty member in ethics and social justice in the School of Nursing at the Uni…
Deep Ethical Learning
From predicting medical conditions to administering health behavior interventions, artificial intelligence technologies are being developed to enhance patient care and outcomes. However, as Mélanie Terrasse and coauthors caution in an article in this issue of the Hastings Center Report, an overreliance on virtual technologies may depersonalize medical interactions and erode therapeutic relationships. The increasing expectation that patients will …
Global Disparity and Solidarity in a Pandemic
While the domestic effect of structural racism and other social vulnerabilities on Covid‐19 mortality in the United States has received some attention, there has been much less discussion (with some notable exceptions) of how structural global inequalities will further exacerbate Covid‐related health disparity across the world. This may be partially due to the delayed availability of accurate and comparable data from overwhelmed systems, particul…
Procedural fairness for radiotherapy priority setting in a low resource context
Radiotherapy is an essential component of cancer treatment, yet many countries do not have adequate capacity to serve their populations. This mismatch between demand and supply creates the need for priority setting. There is no widely accepted system to guide patient prioritization for radiotherapy in a low resource context. In the absence of consensus on allocation principles, fair procedures for priority setting should be established. Research …
Relational Solidarity and the Covid-19 Pandemic
"Relational Solidarity and the COVID-19 Pandemic." IJFAB: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, 15(1), pp. 117–118
AI and the falling sky
This paper argues that the headline-grabbing nature of existential risk (X-Risk) diverts attention away from immediate artificial intelligence (AI) threats, including fairly disseminating AI risks and benefits and justly transitioning towards AI-centred societies. Section I introduces a working definition of X-Risk, considers its likelihood and explores possible subtexts. It highlights conflicts of interest that arise when tech luminaries lead et…
Stoking fears of AI X-Risk (while forgetting justice here and now)
Digital Humans to Combat Loneliness and Social Isolation
Social isolation and loneliness are growing concerns around the globe that put people at increased risk of disease and early death. One much‐touted approach to addressing them is deploying artificially intelligent agents to serve as companions for socially isolated and lonely people. Focusing on digital humans, we consider evidence and ethical arguments for and against this approach. We set forth and defend public health policies that respond to …
Nancy S. Jecker, Zohar Lederman, and Anita Ho reply
This letter replies to the letter “Colonial and Neocolonial Barriers to Companion Digital Humans in Africa,” by Luís Cordeiro‐Rodrigues, in the same, May‐June 2024, issue of the Hastings Center Report
Ethical concerns around privacy and data security in AI health monitoring for Parkinson’s disease
Bioethics and the World Order
The post‐1945 world order is standardly pictured as a Westphalian system, in which each state is equal under the law with sovereign authority over its territories. This paper argues that the Westphalian system is changing and examines the implications for bioethics. We show that cross‐border health, economic, ecologic, and sociopolitical risks defy a Westphalian view and propose an alternative approach that draws insights from Chinese‐Confucian t…
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