Contested technology: Social scientific perspectives of behaviour-based insurance

M Tanninen - Big Data & Society, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
In this review, I analyse how 'behaviour-based personalisation'in insurance–that is, insurers'
increased interest in tracking and manipulating insureds' behaviour with, for instance …

Science, technology, society, and law

SA Cole, A Bertenthal - Annual Review of Law and Social …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Law and regulation increasingly interact with science, technology, and medicine in
contemporary society. Law and social science (LSS) analyses can therefore benefit from …

Who, or what, is insurtech personalizing?: persons, prices and the historical classifications of risk

L McFall, L Moor - Distinktion: journal of social theory, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
This paper examines the promises and pitfalls associated with Insurtech–the anticipated
innovations in the insurance industry associated with social media marketing, artificial …

Insights from insurance for fair machine learning

C Fröhlich, RC Williamson - The 2024 ACM Conference on Fairness …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
We argue that insurance can act as an analogon for the social situatedness of machine
learning systems, hence allowing machine learning scholars to take insights from the rich …

Producing solidarity, inequality and exclusion through insurance

TK Lehtonen, J Liukko - Res publica, 2015 - Springer
The article presents two main arguments. First, we claim that in contemporary societies,
insurance enacts peculiar kinds of solidarities as well as inequality and exclusion …

[HTML][HTML] Study protocol: the Australian genetics and life insurance moratorium—monitoring the effectiveness and response (A-GLIMMER) project

J Tiller, A McInerney-Leo, A Belcher, T Boughtwood… - BMC Medical …, 2021 - Springer
Background The use of genetic test results in risk-rated insurance is a significant concern
internationally, with many countries banning or restricting the use of genetic test results in …

[HTML][HTML] Social and ethical implications of BRCA testing

A Surbone - Annals of Oncology, 2011 - Elsevier
Oncologists are asked with increasing frequency to counsel their patients with respect to the
medical, psychological and social repercussions of genetic testing for cancer susceptibility …

Beyond the geneticization thesis: the political economy of PGD/PGS in Spain

V Pavone, F Arias - Science, Technology, & Human Values, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
In the last decade, preimplantation genetic testing (preimplantation genetic diagnosis [PGD]
and preimplantation genetic screening [PGS]) have become widely used and in 2005 …

Stay fit or get bit–ethical issues in sharing health data with insurers' apps

A Martani, D Shaw, BS Elger - Swiss medical weekly, 2019 - smw.ch
In the framework of digital health, mobile applications with health-related content are
increasing in number and importance. Many of these apps are targeted at the general public …

European practices of genetic information and insurance: lessons for the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act

I Van Hoyweghen, K Horstman - JAMA, 2008 - jamanetwork.com
ONE OF THE MOST CONTENTIOUS TOPICS IN PUB-lic policy debates on genetics has
been the use of genetic information by insurance companies. In the rush to confront …