Ethical Challenges with Welfare Technology: A Review of the Literature.
Demographical changes in high income counties will increase the need of health care services but reduce the number of people to provide them. Welfare technology is launched as an important measure to meet this challenge. As with all types of technologies we must explore its ethical challenges. A lit...
| Publicado en: | Science & Engineering Ethics Vol. 19; no. 2; pp. 389 - 407 |
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