Mobile Health and Deresponsibilization.
The article examines the phenomenon of "deresponsibilization" in mobile health (mHealth) technologies, defined as the shifting away of responsibility and accountability from traditional healthcare actors to less accountable entities. It highlights how mHealth developers exploit regulatory gaps by ma...
| Publicado en: | American Journal of Bioethics Vol. 26; no. 7; pp. 31 - 35 |
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| Formato: | Journal Article |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Jul2026
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