Digital Bioethics
Digital Bioethics is an emerging field that examines the novel ethical challenges posed by digital technologies in health, medicine, and biotechnology. It also investigates how these technologies transform the communication and practice of bioethical reasoning, exploring both their normative implications and methodological opportunities.
Some Key Questions
Key ethical questions include how digital infrastructures and platforms affect ethical decision-making in healthcare and research, how online environments shape public engagement with bioethical issues, and how we can ensure that ethical reflection keeps pace with technological innovation. This field also investigates the use of digital tools—drawing from digital anthropology and computational social science—to study and communicate ethics. Our research aims to develop responsive frameworks and methods that render ethics both actionable within digital contexts and attuned to their societal impact.