Stuart McLennan

How Germany's elite research institution fails young scientists | DW Documentary YouTube video by DW Documentary

Max Planck institutes have a reputation in Germany of being toxic places to work at. This DW Documentary gives some credence to that:

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A scoping review of ethical aspects of public-private partnerships in digital health - npj Digital Medicine npj Digital Medicine - A scoping review of ethical aspects of public-private partnerships in digital health

Led by the wonderful Marieke Bak we review these challenges in this new article "A scoping review of ethical aspects of public-private partnerships in digital health" out in npj Digital Medicine: www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Partnerships between public and private organizations in digital health can promote more accessible, affordable, and high-quality care, but they also raise ethical and governance challenges.

Biases in machine-learning models of human single-cell data - Nature Cell Biology This Perspective discusses the various biases that can emerge along the pipeline of machine learning-based single-cell analysis and presents methods to train models on human single-cell data in order ...

Congratulations to the wonderful @theresawillem.bsky.social for submitting her PhD yesterday and for her new article "Biases in machine-learning models of human single-cell data" out today in @naturecellbiology.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Woman's deepfake betrayal by friend: 'Every moment became porn' Australian teacher Hannah Grundy was left to track down the man posting deepfake pornography of her.

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FUTURE-AI: international consensus guideline for trustworthy and deployable artificial intelligence in healthcare Despite major advances in artificial intelligence (AI) research for healthcare, the deployment and adoption of AI technologies remain limited in clinical practice. This paper describes the FUTURE-AI f...

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Kerala: Breaking the taboo around 'living wills' in India A living will lets people choose the medical care they want to receive if they develop a terminal illness.

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The use of CPR in New Zealand: is it always lawful?
Stuart McLennan, Ron Paterson, PDG Skegg, Richard Aickin
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By Their Side, Not on Their Chest: Ethical Arguments to Allow Residential Aged Care Admission Policies to Forego Full Cardiac Resuscitation - Journal of Bioethical Inquiry We argue that Aged Residential Care (ARC) facilities should be allowed to create and adopt an informed “No Chest Compression” (NCC) policy. Potential residents are informed before admission that staff...

Good to see sensible suggestions around the use of CPR in Aged Residential Care facilities being argued for, and glad to see earlier work on my being cited
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We have established the Munich Embedded Ethics and Social Science Hub (MESH) to promote and develop the Embedded Ethics approach, which I co-direct with @amfiske.bsky.social and is managed by @theresawillem.bsky.social
We would love to hear from people working on similar approaches.

Putting Embedded Ethics and Social Science into practice: the role of peer-to-peer relationships In response to the ethical and societal challenges of emerging technologies, there is a growing commitment to integrative socio-technical research. One such approach is embedded ethics and social s...

Putting Embedded Ethics and Social Science into practice: the role of peer-to-peer relationships: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

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Embedded Ethics and the “Soft Impacts” of Technology: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

In addition, there have been a few other articles reporting challenges and lessons learnt from implementing the approach:

Embedded Ethics in Practice: A Toolbox for Integrating the Analysis of Ethical and Social Issues into Healthcare AI Research - Science and Engineering Ethics Integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into critical domains such as healthcare holds immense promise. Nevertheless, significant challenges must be addressed to avoid harm, promote the well-being of...

In late 2024, we published an article in Science and Engineering Ethics which presents a "Toolbox" of several methods that have proven helpful for embedding ethical and social science analysis and inquiry in practice: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Embedded ethics: a proposal for integrating ethics into the development of medical AI - BMC Medical Ethics The emergence of ethical concerns surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) has led to an explosion of high-level ethical principles being published by a wide range of public and private organizations....

In an article in 2022 in BMC Medical Ethics, we outlined the fundamental features of embedded ethics, namely its aims, modes of integration, practices, and requisite expertise and training bmcmedethics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

We first proposed the approach in 2020 in Nature Machine Intelligence which focused on AI development generally: www.nature.com/articles/s42...

Although the focus of early articles focused on AI and health technology development, we are increasingly using the approach in various areas, including public health research projects.

This allows interdisciplinary collaboration between ethicists/social scientists and developers to identify and address ethical and social issues via an iterative and continuous process from the outset.

The key element of the approach is having trained empirical ethicists and/or social scientists embedded among the project partner’s research and development processes to conduct empirical and normative analysis of ethical and social issues.

The Embedded Ethics and Social Science Approach: In the past years, our team at @ihemtum.bsky.social @alenabuyx.bsky.social together with colleagues at the TUM School of Social Sciences and Technology, have been developing the Embedded Ethics and Social Science approach.

Slow Codes are symptomatic of ethically and legally inappropriate CPR policies Although cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) was initially used very selectively at the discretion of clinicians, the use of CPR rapidly expanded to the point that it was required to be performed on ...

📢 🧪 Fresh from journal of Bioethics, written by our research director @stuartmclennan.bsky.social with contributions by Marieke Bak and Kathrin Knochel: "Slow Codes are symptomatic of ethically and legally inappropriate CPR policies".
Open access here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Slow Codes are symptomatic of ethically and legally inappropriate CPR policies Although cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) was initially used very selectively at the discretion of clinicians, the use of CPR rapidly expanded to the point that it was required to be performed on ...

New article "Slow Codes are symptomatic of ethically and legally inappropriate CPR policies" has been published in the journal of Bioethics today: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

🔊🧪New publication by @theresawillem.bsky.social et al. out in JMIR medical informatics: "The social construction of categorical data: A mixed-methods approach to assessing data features in publicly available machine learning datasets"
👉 Full paper, open access: medinform.jmir.org/2025/1/e59452

🔊🧪 New article out by @stuartmclennan.bsky.social, S., Meyer, L., Wangmo, T. et al. in BMC Public Health: "Psychological stressors of imprisonment and coping of older incarcerated persons: a qualitative interview study" bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Psychological stressors of imprisonment and coping of older incarcerated persons: a qualitative interview study - BMC Public Health Background Imprisonment has a major impact on a person’s psychological well-being. The proportion of older imprisoned persons is dramatically increasing worldwide, and they are likely to have greater ...

New article: "Psychological stressors of imprisonment and coping of older incarcerated persons: a qualitative interview study" was published in BMC Public Health today: bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Embedded Ethics in Practice: A Toolbox for Integrating the Analysis of Ethical and Social Issues into Healthcare AI Research - Science and Engineering Ethics Integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into critical domains such as healthcare holds immense promise. Nevertheless, significant challenges must be addressed to avoid harm, promote the well-being of...

New article in Science and Engineering Ethics: Embedded Ethics in Practice: A Toolbox for Integrating the Analysis of Ethical and Social Issues into Healthcare AI Research link.springer.com/article/10.1... @alenabuyx.bsky.social

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Postdoctoral Research Associate (m/f/d) - Institut für Geschichte und Ethik der Medizin For the new research project under the supervision of Dr. Amelia Fiske “Advancing health data justice: A comparative study of health-related data governance in Canada, Germany, and the United Kingdom”...

Postdoctoral Research Associate Job Alert at our institute at TUM: New cross-cultural research project “Advancing health data justice: A comparative study of health-related data governance in Canada, Germany, and the United Kingdom” (ADJUST) get.med.tum.de/postdoctoral...

Understanding Pandemic Solidarity: Mutual Support During the First COVID-19 Lockdown in the United K... This article investigates how residents in England and Scotland enacted, understood or criticised (the lack of) solidarity during the first national lockdown in

Neu in 'Public Health Ethics': Stephanie Johnson, Stephen Roberts, Sarah Hayes, Amelia Fiske, Federica Lucivero, @stuartmclennan.bsky.social u. a. (2023): "Understanding Pandemic Solidarity: Mutual Support During the First COVID-19 Lockdown in the United Kingdom." academic.oup.com/phe/advance-...