The ethics of dietary apps: Technology, health, and the capability approach

Mark Ryan

Technology in Society, 2022, vol. 68, issue C

Abstract: Dietary apps are said to promote better eating habits, improve dietary knowledge, and awareness about nutrition. However, their use has also raised a number of ethical and social issues related to their impact on individual freedoms, for creating power asymmetries, restricting end-users from expanding their knowledge of health, nudging individuals, and even having harmful effects on people's health. This paper will use the capability approach methodology to explore some of the most common criticisms directed against dietary apps to identify what steps need to be taken to ensure individuals' freedoms are protected, and their health is ensured.

Keywords: The capability approach; Technology ethics; Health ethics; Dietary apps; Freedom; And nutrition (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1016/j.techsoc.2022.101873

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