Alienation Problems and Dissolution Strategies in Medical Digital Twins Technology
As one of the key technologies,medical digital twins can utilize big data to construct a virtual twinning model of a complete human body or part of an organ,and dynamically reflect the molecular state,physi-ological state,and lifestyle of the human body through the electronic manifestation of an individual,possessing the characteristics of real-time updating and dynamic feedback.In the budding stage of the development of new technologies,it is of great prospective significance to think critically and speculate rationally about them.This paper examines the medical digital twins technology from Karl Marx's alienation theory.It finds that a unique al-ienation phenomenon has emerged under the medical digital twins technology with both the common characteristics of Marx's alienation form and the characteristics of the new era,specifically being manifested in the alienation of individual patients,the alienation of the medical process,and the alienation of the doctor-patient and the patient-patient relationship.The root of the problem lies in the philosophical tradition of the mind-body dichot-omy,the algorithmic discrimination and black-box dilemma of the medical model,the profit-making of the medical model,and the ethical dilemmas of healthcare such as body ethics and humanistic care.To eliminate the alienation phenomenon in medical digital twins,we should establish a new type of human-centered doctor-patient community,regulate the algorithms of medical models in multiple dimensions,and establish a good view of body ethics,thus ultimately realizing the unity of lawfulness and purposefulness in medical digital twins.
medical digital twinsKarl Marx's alienation theorydoctor-patient relationshipalgorithmic discriminationmedical ethicshumanistic care
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