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Digital Phenotyping: Ethical Issues, Opportunities, and Threats
This paper explores the potential threats of digital phenotyping and the ways it may redesign our body experience and conceptualization. We argue that technology in digital medicine, and in psychiatry in particular, is not merely an extrinsic device to achieve improvements in knowledge, diagnosis, a...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7267063/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32536882 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00473 |
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author | Stanghellini, Giovanni Leoni, Federico |
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description | This paper explores the potential threats of digital phenotyping and the ways it may redesign our body experience and conceptualization. We argue that technology in digital medicine, and in psychiatry in particular, is not merely an extrinsic device to achieve improvements in knowledge, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases; rather, it intrinsically and unavoidably implies potential effects on what it is to be a human person, namely the embodiment and relatedness in human affairs, and not only in the clinical setting. Last but not least, digital phenotyping may improve prediction of abnormal behaviour, but not improve its causal explanation or psychological understanding. |
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spelling | pubmed-72670632020-06-12 Digital Phenotyping: Ethical Issues, Opportunities, and Threats Stanghellini, Giovanni Leoni, Federico Front Psychiatry Psychiatry This paper explores the potential threats of digital phenotyping and the ways it may redesign our body experience and conceptualization. We argue that technology in digital medicine, and in psychiatry in particular, is not merely an extrinsic device to achieve improvements in knowledge, diagnosis, and treatment of diseases; rather, it intrinsically and unavoidably implies potential effects on what it is to be a human person, namely the embodiment and relatedness in human affairs, and not only in the clinical setting. Last but not least, digital phenotyping may improve prediction of abnormal behaviour, but not improve its causal explanation or psychological understanding. Frontiers Media S.A. 2020-05-27 /pmc/articles/PMC7267063/ /pubmed/32536882 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00473 Text en Copyright © 2020 Stanghellini and Leoni http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychiatry Stanghellini, Giovanni Leoni, Federico Digital Phenotyping: Ethical Issues, Opportunities, and Threats |
title | Digital Phenotyping: Ethical Issues, Opportunities, and Threats |
title_full | Digital Phenotyping: Ethical Issues, Opportunities, and Threats |
title_fullStr | Digital Phenotyping: Ethical Issues, Opportunities, and Threats |
title_full_unstemmed | Digital Phenotyping: Ethical Issues, Opportunities, and Threats |
title_short | Digital Phenotyping: Ethical Issues, Opportunities, and Threats |
title_sort | digital phenotyping: ethical issues, opportunities, and threats |
topic | Psychiatry |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7267063/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32536882 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2020.00473 |
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