Mhealth

Intersectional Ethics for a Global Society
Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-0-19-777899-9
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 266 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 235 mm

This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.

The global dimensions of health and illness, moreover, their alarming manifestations amid pandemics, legacies of colonial harm and environmental crises, highlight the urgency to recalibrate our approaches to health towards cooperative and justice-oriented strategies to healthcare development, technology design, and implementation. Drawing on both international and cross-cultural perspectives, mHealth investigates the ongoing healthcare transformation generated by the potential of digital health technologies and the power dynamics, opportunities, asymmetries, and ethical implications for society through these changes. The book covers a range of topics, including digital health phenotyping, cross-cultural ethics, digital health justice, coloniality, Indigenous Data Sovereignty, and digital health ethics for the twenty-first century.

In order to foster a cooperative, beneficial, and just technological development, this volume integrates critical reflections on power imbalances, structural concerns of justice, intersectional and cross-cultural ethics, and decolonial perspectives on health and wellbeing. Discussing intersectional perspectives on mHealth technologies, the book prominently features debates on justice, equity, and solidarity from under-represented perspectives and on various ethical approaches to guide socially sustainable innovation with mHealth.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hendl, Tereza

Jansky, Bianca

Wild, Verina

Arora, Payal

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction

- Section I. Transformations

- 1: Marisol Marini, Monique Oliveira and Marko Monteiro: Digital Health in Brazil: The Challenges of Universality and Equity

- 2: Patricia Mechael: Digital Health Inflection Point: Expanding Digital Health to Include Promotion of a Healthy Digital Ecosystem

- 3: Anjali Raj Westwood: Mobile Health Services for Indian Women During and After Pregnancy

- 4: Bianca Jansky Interviews Jessica Haberer: Medicine Digitized

- 5: Bianca Jansky, Ayush Shukla and Verina Wild: Traveling Big Tech Narratives in the German, Indian, and U.S. Digital Health Start-Up Sphere

- Section II. Power

- 6: Nicholas Riggall: A Personal Reflection on Challenges mHealth Inherits from Established Inequities in Access to Health Technologies in Type 1 Diabetes

- 7: Deborah Lupton, Ash Watson and Vaughan Wozniak-O'Connor: Novel Mobile Digital Assistive Technologies in Australia: A Critical Analysis

- 8: Usha Raman: mHealth and Task-Shifting: What Does It Mean for Frontline Care Work?

- 9: Shoshana Bloom: Advancing Digital Health Equity: Strategies to Bridge the Divide

- 10: Tereza Hendl interviews Azure Hermes: Genomics and Aboriginal Health Justice

- Section III. Ethics

- 11: Verina Wild and Jan-Christoph Heilinger: (In-)Justices of Health Apps through the Lens of Commercial Determinants of Health

- 12: Tereza Hendl interviews Keisha Ray: The Importance of Black Health in Digital Health

- 13: Samuel Asiedu Owusu and Athanasius Afful: Ethics and Governance of mHealth Practices in Ghana

- 14: Kiri West and Ashlea Gillon: Indigenous Data Sovereignty and Maori Health

- 15: Nabila Puspakesuma, Angeliki Kerasidou and Gabriela Pavarini: Children and Young People's Voices in Digital Mental Health: An Analysis Using Epistemic Injustice

- 16: Gabrielle Samuel: mHealth, Environmental Impacts and Justice: A Case Study of Digital Phenotyping

- 17: Tereza Hendl: An Expanded Ethics of mHealth for Global Societies in the 21st Century

Über Autor(innen)

Tereza Hendl is a political philosopher, specialised in concerns of global health justice, at the University of Augsburg. She investigates concerns of oppression, vulnerability, refusal, empowerment, justice, and solidarity, the ethics and epistemology of health technologies and interventions, and concerns of East-West hierarchies of knowledge. She is the co-founder of Central and Eastern European Feminist Research Network and the RUTA Association for Central, South-Eastern, and Eastern European, Baltic, Caucasus, Central and Northern Asian Studies in Global Conversation, which are initiatives that amplify and connect so far marginalised knowledges and contribute to epistemic reparations.

Bianca Jansky is a social scientist working at the intersection of medical science and technology studies (STS) and medical ethics. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the Ludwig-Maximilians-University (LMU) Munich and is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Centre for medical Science and

Technology Studies in the Department of Public Health at the University of Copenhagen as well as an associated researcher at the institute for Ethics and History of Health in Society, Faculty of Medicine, at the University of Augsburg. Jansky's research centers on the social and ethical dimensions of digital health technologies. Her work is primarily ethnographic and draws on concepts from medical STS, public health ethics, and intersectional feminist theory.

Verina Wild is Professor for Ethics of Medicine and Director of the Institute for Ethics and History of Health in Society at the University of Augsburg. She has a research focus on public health ethics, health justice, and vulnerabilities. In her work, she explores the relation between the individual, the population, and the social and environmental structures. She is the co-founder of the international public health ethics working group, which is associated to the German Medical Ethics Association (AEM) and the German Society for

Public Health (DGPH), and she is Associate Editor of the journal Public Health Ethics.

Payal Arora is Professor of Inclusive AI Cultures at Utrecht University and co-founder of the Inclusive AI Lab. A digital anthropologist, she brings two decades of expertise on user experiences in the Global South. She is the author of 150+ publications and award-winning books, including The Next Billion Users (2019) and From Pessimism to Promise (2024). Forbes has recognized her as the "next billion champion" and "the right kind of person to reform tech." She was named among the 100 Brilliant Women in AI Ethics 2025 and received the 2025 Women in AI Benelux Award. Her work has been featured in 200+ outlets such as the Financial Times, Wired, The Economist, and TechCrunch. She has delivered 350+ talks across 85 countries, including at re:publica, COP26, TEDx, and the World Economic Forum. She is a Harvard and Columbia University alum and a Rockefeller Bellagio Fellow.