Disruptive innovation in healthcare requires disruptive innovation in medical ethics

Project Information

DIME

Grant agreement ID: 949841

DOI

10.3030/949841

EC signature date 21 August 2020

Start date 1 February 2021

End date 31 July 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 273 750,00

EU contribution

€ 1 273 750,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITEIT GENT
Belgium

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (23)

We need to talk about disruption in bioethics: a commentary on Rueda, Pugh and Savulescu

Author(s): Michiel De Proost; Seppe Segers
Published in: Trends in Biotechnology, 2023, ISSN 0167-7799
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.tibtech.2022.12.001

Robot Technology for the Elderly and the Value of Veracity: Disruptive Technology or Reinvigorating Entrenched Principles?

Author(s): Seppe Segers
Published in: Science and Engineering Ethics, 2022, ISSN 1353-3452
Publisher: Opragen Publications
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-022-00420-2

Revisiting the ought implies can dictum in light of disruptive medical innovation

Author(s): Michiel De Proost; Seppe Segers
Published in: Journal of Medical Ethics, 2023, ISSN 0306-6800
Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1136/jme-2023-108946

Take five? A coherentist argument why medical AI does not require a new ethical principle

Author(s): Seppe Segers, Michiel De Proost
Published in: Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, Issue 45, 2024, Page(s) 387-400, ISSN 1386-7415
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s11017-024-09676-0

The Personalized Patient Preference Predictor: A Harmful and Misleading Solution Losing Sight of the Problem It Claims to Solve

Author(s): Heidi Mertes
Published in: The American Journal of Bioethics, Issue 24, 2024, Page(s) 41-42, ISSN 1526-5161
Publisher: MIT Press
DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2024.2353816

Responsibility Gap(s) Due to the Introduction of AI in Healthcare: An Ubuntu-Inspired Approach

Author(s): Brandon Ferlito, Seppe Segers, Michiel De Proost, Heidi Mertes
Published in: Science and Engineering Ethics, Issue 30, 2024, ISSN 1471-5546
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/s11948-024-00501-4

Age‐related hearing loss and “hearables”: An agenda for moral considerations

Author(s): Michiel De Proost, Seppe Segers, Heidi Mertes
Published in: Bioethics, Issue 38, 2024, Page(s) 778-786, ISSN 0269-9702
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/bioe.13327

Data governance must consider the interests of the global community

Author(s): Jon Rueda, Sebastian Porsdam Mann, Janet Delgado, Brian D. Earp, Karin Jongsma, Heidi Mertes, Davide Battisti, Íñigo de Miguel Beriain, Gabriela Lenarczyk, Vera Lúcia Raposo, Robert Ranisch, Murilo Vilaça, Tomasz Żuradzki, David Rodríguez-Arias, Angel Puyol
Published in: Nature Medicine, 2025, ISSN 1078-8956
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41591-025-03837-x

The curious case of “trust” in the light of changing doctor–patient relationships

Author(s): Seppe Segers; Heidi Mertes
Published in: Bioethics, 2022, ISSN 1467-8519
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/bioe.13064

Take another five. A response to Adams

Author(s): Michiel De Proost, Seppe Segers
Published in: Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, Issue 46, 2025, Page(s) 269-272, ISSN 1386-7415
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s11017-025-09711-8

No Justice Without (Relational) Autonomy? Rethinking the Digital Empowerment Rhetoric

Author(s): Michiel De Proost, Jesse Gray
Published in: Digital Society, Issue 3, 2024, ISSN 2731-4650
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/s44206-024-00093-3

Disrupting medical necessity: Setting an old medical ethics theme in new light

Author(s): Seppe Segers; Michiel De Proost
Published in: Clinical Ethics, Issue 18 (3), 2023, ISSN 1477-7509
Publisher: Royal Society of Medicine Press Ltd
DOI: 10.1177/14777509231156046

An ethical exploration of pregnancy related mHealth: does it deliver?

Author(s): Seppe Segers; Heidi Mertes; Guido Pennings
Published in: Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 2021, ISSN 1386-7423
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s11019-021-10039-y

On misempowerment & mobile health

Author(s): Jesse Gray, Heidi Mertes
Published in: Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, Issue 28, 2025, Page(s) 549-560, ISSN 1386-7423
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s11019-025-10277-4

Data Solidarity Disrupted: Musings On the Overlooked Role of Mutual Aid in Data-Driven Medicine

Author(s): Michiel De Proost
Published in: Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, Issue 33, 2024, Page(s) 401-419, ISSN 1086-3249
Publisher: Project MUSE
DOI: 10.1353/ken.2023.a931052

The information, control, and value models of mobile health‐driven empowerment

Author(s): Jesse Gray, Seppe Segers, Heidi Mertes
Published in: Bioethics, Issue 39, 2025, Page(s) 460-466, ISSN 0269-9702
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/bioe.13294

Navigating the Landscape of Digital Twins in Medicine: A Relational Bioethical Inquiry

Author(s): Brandon Ferlito, Michiel De Proost, Seppe Segers
Published in: Asian Bioethics Review, Issue 16, 2024, Page(s) 471-481, ISSN 1793-8759
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/s41649-024-00280-x

Digital Simulacra and the Call for Epistemic Responsibility: An Ubuntu Perspective

Author(s): Brandon Ferlito; Michiel De Proost
Published in: The American Journal of Bioethics, Issue 23(9), 2023, Page(s) 91-93, ISSN 1536-0075
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2023.2237467

Keeping an AI on the mental health of vulnerable populations: reflections on the potential for participatory injustice

Author(s): Giorgia Pozzi, Michiel De Proost
Published in: AI and Ethics, Issue 5, 2025, Page(s) 2281-2291, ISSN 2730-5953
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/s43681-024-00523-5

Why dignity is a troubling concept for AI ethics

Author(s): Jon Rueda, Txetxu Ausín, Mark Coeckelbergh, Juan Ignacio del Valle, Francisco Lara, Belén Liedo, Joan Llorca Albareda, Heidi Mertes, Robert Ranisch, Vera Lúcia Raposo, Bernd C. Stahl, Murilo Vilaça, Íñigo de Miguel
Published in: Patterns, Issue 6, 2025, Page(s) 101207, ISSN 2666-3899
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.patter.2025.101207

Why we should talk about institutional (dis)trustworthiness and medical machine learning

Author(s): Michiel De Proost, Giorgia Pozzi
Published in: Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, Issue 28, 2025, Page(s) 83-92, ISSN 1386-7423
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s11019-024-10235-6

De meta-ethische wending in de bio-ethiek

Author(s): Seppe Segers; Michiel De Proost
Published in: Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte, 2023, ISSN 0002-5275
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
DOI: 10.5117/antw2023.3.019.sege

Male Fertility-Related mHealth: Does It Create New Vulnerabilities?

Author(s): Michiel De Proost
Published in: International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, 2023, ISSN 1937-4585
Publisher: Indiana University Press
DOI: 10.3138/ijfab-2022-0028

Other (5)

Ubuntu as a complementary perspective for addressing epistemic (in)justice in medical machine learning

Author(s): Brandon Ferlito; Michiel De Proost
Published in: Journal of Medical Ethics, Issue 49 (8), 2023, Page(s) 545-546
Publisher: The BMJ Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1136/jme-2023-109097

Conversational Artificial Intelligence and the Potential for Epistemic Injustice

Author(s): Michiel De Proost; Giorgia Pozzi
Published in: The American Journal of Bioethics, 2023
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2023.2191020

What you believe you want, may not be what the algorithm knows

Author(s): Seppe Segers
Published in: Journal of Medical Ethics, Issue 49(3), 2023, Page(s) 177-178, ISSN 1473-4257
Publisher: BMJ
DOI: 10.1136/jme-2022-108778

Deception Mode: How Conversational AI Can Respect Patient Autonomy

Author(s): Jesse Gray
Published in: The American Journal of Bioethics, Issue 23(5), 2023, Page(s) 55-57
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/15265161.2023.2191023

Complication for a greener medical ethics code: assisted reproduction

Author(s): Seppe Segers Michiel De Proost
Published in: Journal of Medical Ethics, 2023
Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1136/jme-2023-109667