Konferenz: Stereotypical technologies – stereotypical healthcare?

19.06.2024 Munich and Online.

Stereotypical technologies – stereotypical healthcare? Towards diversity-sensitive healthcare in the digital era

Time: 19^th June 2024, 16:30-18:00 CET
Venue: TU Munich Institute of History and Ethics in Medicine, Ismaninger Straße 22, 81675 Munich and Online (Zoom)

Organization: TU Munich Institute of History and Ethics in Medicine (IHEM)

Speaker: Niklas Ellerich-Groppe, Research Associate at the Division of Ethics in Medicine at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg

Despite an increasing awareness for diversity in medicine and healthcare, the healthcare system is still far from ensuring adequate and equal treatment for all. This becomes particularly clear in the context of digital technologies that seem to promise improved healthcare for all on the one hand but, at the same time, threaten to exacerbate existing inequalities and discrimination on the other. Using the example of stereotypes in human-robot interaction in eldercare and gender-related inequalities in self-tracking-technologies, the talk addresses the question which ethical problems arise due to a lacking diversity-sensitivity in healthcare and sketches first steps towards a diversity-sensitive healthcare system in the digital era.

If you would like to attend online, please use the following Zoom dial-in info:
https://tum-conf.zoom.us/j/63062412184
Meeting-ID: 630 6241 2184
Code: 536634

If you would like to attend in-person, prior registration is requested from external guests. Please register before June 13.

Contact and registration:
Marieke Bak
marieke.bak@tum.de