The ethical implications of new health technologies and citizen participation

The ethical implications of new health technologies and citizen participation
(Executive Summary and Implications)

 Key Ethical Reflections

1. The opening of a multitude of new roles for citizens as active participants in various dimensions of health may impact on the way individuals view their health, their body, and conceptualise illness and disease

2.New health technologies, and participatory practices are destabilising traditional structures of power and knowledge unpinning medical practice, altering what it means to be a patient in the modern health context.

3. participatory practices in health are opening new roles to citizens in the production of medical knowledge and innovation