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

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.

Organizational details

This event is organized by the Institute of History and Ethics in Medicine (IHEM), School of Medicine, Technical University of Munich under the direction of Prof. Alena Buyx. It is a hybrid format, held simultaneously in person and online via Zoom. If you would like to attend in-person, prior registration is requested from external guests. Please register before June 13 by sending an email to marieke.baktum.de.

If you would like to attend, please use the following Zoom dial-in info:

https://tum-conf.zoom.us/j/63062412184

Meeting-ID: 630 6241 2184

Code: 536634