Obstetric Ultrasound and the Technological Mediation of Morality: A Postphenomenological Analysis
@article{Verbeek2008ObstetricUA, title={Obstetric Ultrasound and the Technological Mediation of Morality: A Postphenomenological Analysis}, author={Peter P.C.C. Verbeek}, journal={Human Studies}, year={2008}, volume={31}, pages={11-26} }
This article analyzes the moral relevance of technological artifacts and its possible role in ethical theory, by taking the postphenomenological approach that has developed around the work of Don Ihde into the domain of ethics. By elaborating a postphenomenological analysis of the mediating role of ultrasound in moral decisions about abortion, the article argues that technologies embody morality and help to constitute moral subjectivity. This technological mediation of the moral subject is…
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