Ethical aspects of the Internet of Bodies
https://doi.org/10.37489/2588-0519-2021-2-89-98
Abstract
This article outlines bioethical issues related to the application of the Internet of Body (IoB) technology in health care so-called medical IoB devices. Manufacturers of medical IoB devices promise to provide significant health benefits, improved treatment outcomes and other benefits, but such IoB also carry serious risks to health and life, including the risks of hacking (cyberhacking), malfunctioning, receiving false positive measurements, breaching privacy, deliberate invasion of privacy. In addition, medical IoB products can directly cause physical harm to the human body. As human flesh is intertwined with hardware, software, and algorithms, the IoB will test our social values and ethics. In particular, IoB will challenge notions of human autonomy and self-government as they threaten to undermine the fundamental precondition of human autonomy. Thus, the protection of human autonomy should become the main ethical principle of the use of medical IoB devices.
About the Authors
A. L. Khokhlov
Yaroslavl State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of Russia; Ethics Council under the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Khokhlov Alexander L., MD, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Professor, Head of the Department of the Clinical Pharmacology and ethical drugs utilization UNESCO. SPIN code: 9389-8926
Yaroslavl
D. Yu. Belousov
LLC “Center for pharmacoeconomics research”
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Belousov Dmitry Yu., Leading specialist. SPIN code: 6067-9067
Moscow
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Khokhlov A.L., Belousov D.Yu. Ethical aspects of the Internet of Bodies. Kachestvennaya Klinicheskaya Praktika = Good Clinical Practice. 2021;(2):89-98. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.37489/2588-0519-2021-2-89-98
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