Exploring the intersection of the medical metaverse and healthcare ethics: future considerations and caveats

Colm McCourt
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The medical metaverse and digital twin are set to revolutionise healthcare. Like all emerging technologies their benefits must be weighed against their ethical and social, impacts. If we consider the advances of medical technology as an expression of our values, such as the pursuit of knowledge, cures and healing, an ethical study allows us to align our values and steer the technology towards an agreed goal. However, to appreciate the long-term consequents of a technology, those consequences must be considered in the context of a society already shaped by that technology. This paper identifies the technologies currently shaping society and considers the ethical, and social consequences of the medical metaverse and digital twin in that future society.

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探索医学元宇宙与医疗伦理的交叉点:未来的考虑因素和注意事项
医疗元宇宙和数字孪生将彻底改变医疗行业。与所有新兴技术一样,我们必须权衡它们的优势与伦理和社会影响。如果我们将医疗技术的进步视为我们价值观的体现,如追求知识、治疗和治愈,那么伦理研究就能让我们调整价值观,引导技术朝着一致同意的目标发展。然而,要了解一项技术的长期后果,必须在该技术已经塑造的社会背景下考虑这些后果。本文指出了当前塑造社会的技术,并探讨了医疗元宇宙和数字孪生在未来社会中的伦理和社会后果。
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Global health journal (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Global health journal (Amsterdam, Netherlands) Public Health and Health Policy
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