Joanna Karolina MalinowskaAdam Mickiewicz University | UAM · Faculty of Philosophy
Joanna Karolina Malinowska
Doctor of Philosophy
Conceptualisation and use of ethnoracial categories in biomedical research and healthcare.
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Introduction
I am an adjunct at the Epistemology and Cognitive Science Research Unit at Adam Mickiewicz University (Faculty of Philosophy). At the moment I work on the research project "Category of race in the philosophy of medicine: conceptualisation and application of the category of race in biomedical research and healthcare".
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The use of the category of race in science (in relation to humans) remains controversial. During the last few years there has been a lively debate on this topic in the field of a relatively young neuroscience discipline called cultural neuroscience. The main focus of cultural neuroscience is on biocultural conditions of the development of different...
This paper discuss the phenomenon of empathy in social robotics and is divided into three main parts. Initially, I analyse whether it is correct to use this concept to study and describe people's reactions to robots. I present arguments in favour of the position that people actually do empathise with robots. I also consider what circumstances shape...
In this article, we analyse how researchers use the categories of race and ethnicity with reference to genetics and genomics. We show that there is still considerable conceptual “messiness” (despite the wide-ranging and popular debate on the subject) when it comes to the use of ethnoracial categories in genetics and genomics that among other things...
In this paper, we discuss the processes of racialisation on the example of biomedical research. We argue that applying the concept of racialisation in biomedical research can be much more precise, informative and suitable than currently used categories, such as race and ethnicity. For this purpose, we construct a model of the different processes af...
In this article, we discuss epistemological limitations relating to the use of ethnoracial categories in biomedical research as devised by the Office of Management and Budget’s institutional guidelines. We argue that the obligation to use ethnoracial categories in genomics research should be abandoned. First, we outline how conceptual imprecision i...
We argue that there are neither scientific nor social reasons to require gathering ethno-racial data, as defined in the US legal regulations if researchers have no prior hypotheses as to how to connect this type of categorisation of human participants of clinical trials with any mechanisms that could explain alleged interracial health differences a...
Science is never neutral. It is always made by people shaped by specific ideas, concepts, values, and experiences. It is always done for a purpose, and this purpose is determined by many different factors: ideological, economic, political, historical, technical, among others. Science is never just a matter of facts. Emma Kowal's book, Haunting Biol...
Książka stanowi dogłębne studium epistemologii znaturalizowanej w jej dwóch odsłonach – fizykalistycznej i ewolucjonistycznej. Jest przy tym jedynym tak szczegółowym omówieniem epistemologii ewolucyjnej (zarówno jeśli chodzi o polską, jak i zagraniczną literaturę). Autorka stawia pytania o ontologiczne, metodologiczne i epistemologiczne podstawy om...
Pyrrho and colleagues (2022) argue that the loss of
health privacy can damage democratic values by
increasing social polarization, removing individual
choice, and limiting self-determination. As a remedy,
the authors propose a data-regulation regime that prohibits
companies from using such data for discriminatory
purposes. Our commentary addresses...
Among the harms done to the AI/AN individuals and communities due to their participation in biomedical research, Saunkeah et al. (2021) mention misrepresentations, stereotyping, and inappropriate generalizations. In principle, the use of CBPR is supposed to protect tribes and their representatives from such practices. Paradoxically, it may, however...
Given that empathy allows people to form and maintain satisfying social relationships with other subjects, it is no surprise that this is one of the most studied phenomena in the area of human–robot interaction (HRI). But the fact that the term ‘empathy’ has strong social connotations raises a question: can it be applied to robots? Can we actually...
An interesting aspect of love and sex (and other types of interactions) with robots is that human beings often treat robots as animate and express emotions towards them. In this paper, we discuss two interpretations of why people experience emotions towards robots and tend to treat them as animate: naturalistic and antinaturalistic. We first provid...
Due to its interdisciplinary nature, the field of HRI uses many concepts typical of the social sciences and humanities, in addition to terms that are usually associated with technology. In this paper, I analyse the problems that arise when we use the term ‘empathy’ to describe and explain the interaction between robots and humans. I argue that this...