VR in Medicine: Identifying Harms to Realise Potential
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A Round Table Consultation on Practical Ethics and Virtual Reality
Today, only a small fraction of what will be possible in the future of virtual reality (VR), or extended reality (XR), is used or considered in medicine. The ever-increasing range of medical applications of VR implies the universality and harmlessness of this technology. On closer inspection, however, questions of a philosophical, ethical, legal, and technical nature come into focus, which on the one hand are generated by the essential characteristics of the technology itself and on the other hand result from the exposure of the individual to this artificial environment.
This round table will explore key ethical questions that are of particular relevance when considering the use of VR in a clinical setting.
Participation is by invitation only.
Round Table Planning Committe
Prof. Jennifer A. Chandler, Professor at the Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa
Dr. Celia Deane-Drummond, Director of the Laudato Si' Research Institute and Senior Research Fellow in Theology at Campion Hall
Prof. Dr. Marc Erich Latoschik, Head of Chair for Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), University of Würzburg
Dr. Maria Marloth, Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, University of Cologne
Prof. Dr. Dr. Kai Vogeley, Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroimaging Group Leader, University Hospital Cologne, and Group Leader in Social Cognition, Institute for Neuroscience and Medicine, Cognitive Neuroscience Section, Jülich Research Centre
Participants
Revd. Dr. Nick Austin SJ, Master and Senior Fellow in Theological Ethics, Campion Hall, University of Oxford
Prof. Dr. med. Dr. phil. Nikola Biller-Andorno, Director, Institute of Biomedical Ethics and History of Medicine (IBME), University of Zurich
Dr. Mårten Björk, Junior Research Fellow in Theology and Religious Studies, Campion Hall, University of Oxford
Dr. Christoph Bublitz, Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Law, University of Hamburg
Prof. Tom Craig, Emeritus Professor of Community and Social Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London
Prof. Oliver Davies, Distinguished International Research Professor in China (Philosophy, Ethics and Religion), School of Philosophy, Renmin University of China
Prof. Joshua Hordern, Associate Professor of Christian Ethics in the Faculty of Theology and Religion, University of Oxford
Dr. Med. Philipp Kellmeyer, Head of Neuroethics & AI Ethics Lab, Department of Neurosurgery, University of Freiburg
Dr. David Lyreskog, Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford
Prof. Neil Messer, Professor of Theology, University of Winchester
Prof. Gerben Meynen, Professor of Forensic Psychiatry, Utrecht University; endowed professor of Ethics and Psychiatry, VU University Amsterdam
Prof. Dr. Oliver Müller, Heisenberg Professor of Philosophy, Department of Philosophy, University of Freiburg
Dr. Stephen Rainey, Research Fellow, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford
Prof. Ilina Singh, Professor of Neuroscience and Society, University of Oxford