Journal article
Black, white or green: ‘race’, gender and avatars within the therapeutic space
Medical humanities, Vol.37(1), pp.9-12
06/2011
DOI: 10.1136/jmh.2010.005637
PMID: 21593244
Abstract
Personal identity is critical to provider–patient interactions. Patients and doctors tend to self-select, ideally forming therapeutic units that maximise the patients' benefit. Recently, however, ‘reality’ has changed. The internet and virtual worlds such as Second Life (http://www.secondlife.com/) allow models of identity and provider–patient interactions that go beyond the limits of mainstream personal identity. In this paper some of the ethical implications of virtual patient–provider interactions, especially those that have to do with personal identity, are explored.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Black, white or green: ‘race’, gender and avatars within the therapeutic space
- Creators
- Mark A Graber - Department of Family Medicine, University of Iowa Carver College of Medicine, Iowa, USAAbraham D Graber - Department of Philosophy, University of Iowa, Iowa, USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Medical humanities, Vol.37(1), pp.9-12
- DOI
- 10.1136/jmh.2010.005637
- PMID
- 21593244
- ISSN
- 1468-215X
- eISSN
- 1473-4265
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 06/2011
- Academic Unit
- Emergency Medicine
- Record Identifier
- 9984025247702771
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