Dr Marianne Boenink
Marianne Boenink is a philosopher of technology who is particularly interested in the role and implications of technologies in biomedicine, and in early societal and ethical assessment of emerging technologies. Marianne studied health sciences (University of Maastricht) and philosophy (University of Amsterdam).
She is Associate Professor and Director of Education at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Twente. She also directs the MSc programme Philosophy of Science, Technology and Society (PSTS). In addition, she chairs the Ethics Comittee of the BMS Faculty.
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Responsible coma prognostics
This project further develops a new EEG-based prognostic technology for comatose patients, identifying relevant socio-ethical values and how to pro-actively take them into account in the innovation process.
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Tackling Alzheimer's together
The developments taking place in the diagnosis of Alzheimer's are controversial. It is therefore high time that we examined how to achieve responsible innovation in this area.