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39Cognitive Enhancement: Ethical and Policy Implications in International Perspectives (edited book)Oxford University Press USA. 2016.There is a growing literature in neuroethics dealing with the problem of cognitive neuroenhancement for healthy adults. However, discussions on this topic have tended to focus on abstract theoretical positions while concrete policy proposals and detailed models are scarce. Furthermore, discussions tend to rely solely on data from the US, while international perspectives are mostly neglected. Therefore, there is a need for a volume that deals with cognitive enhancement comprehensively in three im…Read more
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6Ethical Challenges in Oral Healthcare Services Provided by Non-Governmental Organizations for Refugees in GermanyJournal of Bioethical Inquiry 1-10. forthcoming.Oral healthcare is attracting much attention after decades of neglect from policymakers. Recent studies have shown a strong association between oral and overall health, which can lead to serious health problems. Availability of oral healthcare services is an essential part of ensuring universal healthcare coverage. More importantly, current gaps in its accessibility by minority or marginalized population groups are crucial public health as well as ethical concerns. One notable effort to address …Read more
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90Neuroethics is an interdisciplinary field that arose in response to novel ethical challenges posed by advances in neuroscience. Historically, neuroethics has provided an opportunity to synergize different disciplines, notably proposing a two-way dialogue between an ‘ethics of neuroscience’ and a ‘neuroscience of ethics’. However, questions surface as to whether a ‘neuroscience of ethics’ is a useful and unified branch of research and whether it can actually inform or lead to theoretical insights…Read more
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99Bioethics as biopoliticsJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 31 (3). 2006.This Article does not have an abstract
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21Remote Technologies and Filial Obligations at a Distance: New Opportunities and Ethical ChallengesAsian Bioethics Review 15 (4): 479-504. 2023.The coupled growth of population aging and international migration warrants attention on the methods and solutions available to adult children living overseas to provide distance caregiving for their aging parents. Despite living apart from their parents, the transnational informal care literature has indicated that first-generation immigrants remain committed to carry out their filial caregiving obligations in extensive and creative ways. With functions to remotely access health information ena…Read more
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34Moral Deficits, Moral Motivation and the Feasibility of Moral BioenhancementTopoi 38 (1): 63-71. 2019.The debate over moral bioenhancement has incrementally intensified since 2008, when Persson and Savulescu, and Douglas wrote two separate articles on the reasons why enhancing human moral capabilities and sensitivity through technological means was ethically desirable. In this article, we offer a critique of how Persson and Savulescu theorize about the possibility of moral bioenhancement, including the problem of weakness of will, which they see as a motivational challenge. First, we offer a wor…Read more
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23Ethical Design of Intelligent Assistive Technologies for Dementia: A Descriptive ReviewScience and Engineering Ethics 24 (4): 1035-1055. 2018.The use of Intelligent Assistive Technology in dementia care opens the prospects of reducing the global burden of dementia and enabling novel opportunities to improve the lives of dementia patients. However, with current adoption rates being reportedly low, the potential of IATs might remain under-expressed as long as the reasons for suboptimal adoption remain unaddressed. Among these, ethical and social considerations are critical. This article reviews the spectrum of IATs for dementia and inve…Read more
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40Bioethics and the philosophy of medicine: A thirty-year perspectiveJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 31 (6). 2006.This Article does not have an abstract
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11Bioethics and Democracy: Competing Roles of National Bioethics OrganisationsBioethics 20 (6): 326-338. 2006.ABSTRACT In establishing National Bioethics Organisations (NBOs), liberal democracies seek to acknowledge the diversity of strongly held ethical positions and the imperative to engage in public debate about important bioethical decisions. NBOs are typically given a range of responsibilities, including contributing to and stimulating public debate; providing expert opinion on relevant issues for policy deliberations; and developing public policy. The state is now found to have an interest in area…Read more
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62Minding Rights: Mapping Ethical and Legal Foundations of ‘Neurorights’Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 32 (4): 461-481. 2023.The rise of neurotechnologies, especially in combination with artificial intelligence (AI)-based methods for brain data analytics, has given rise to concerns around the protection of mental privacy, mental integrity and cognitive liberty – often framed as “neurorights” in ethical, legal, and policy discussions. Several states are now looking at including neurorights into their constitutional legal frameworks, and international institutions and organizations, such as UNESCO and the Council of Eur…Read more
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82Bioethics and the Philosophy of Medicine: A Thirty-Year PerspectiveJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 31 (6): 565-568. 2006.
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27Toward a Common Grace Christian Bioethics: A Reformed Protestant Engagement with H. Tristram Engelhardt, JrChristian Bioethics 20 (2): 229-245. 2014.
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20From Nanoscience to Nanoethics (review)International Journal of Applied Philosophy 25 (1): 121-127. 2011.
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9Bioethics and the Coming Age of ThresholdingChristian Bioethics 8 (3): 333-346. 2002.Fabrice Jotterand; Bioethics and the Coming Age of Thresholding, Christian bioethics: Non-Ecumenical Studies in Medical Morality, Volume 8, Issue 3, 1 January 2.
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21Promoting Equity in Health Care through Human Flourishing, Justice, and SolidarityJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 48 (1): 98-109. 2023.In this article, we develop a non-rights-based argument based on beneficence (i.e., the welfare of individuals and communities) and justice as the disposition to act justly to promote equity in health care resource allocation. To this end, we structured our analysis according to the following main sections. The first section examines the work of Amartya Sen and his equality of capabilities approach and outlines a framework of health care as a fundamental human need. In the subsequent section, we…Read more
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78Towards a Governance Framework for Brain DataNeuroethics 15 (2): 1-14. 2022.The increasing availability of brain data within and outside the biomedical field, combined with the application of artificial intelligence (AI) to brain data analysis, poses a challenge for ethics and governance. We identify distinctive ethical implications of brain data acquisition and processing, and outline a multi-level governance framework. This framework is aimed at maximizing the benefits of facilitated brain data collection and further processing for science and medicine whilst minimizi…Read more
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40Doctor Ex Machina: A Critical Assessment of the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Health CareJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 47 (1): 155-178. 2022.This article examines the potential implications of the implementation of artificial intelligence in health care for both its delivery and the medical profession. To this end, the first section explores the basic features of AI and the yet theoretical concept of autonomous AI followed by an overview of current and developing AI applications. Against this background, the second section discusses the transforming roles of physicians and changes in the patient–physician relationship that could be a…Read more
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25Losing Our (Moral) Self in the Moral Bioenhancement DebateAmerican Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 12 (2-3): 87-88. 2021.
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44Digital Technologies for Schizophrenia Management: A Descriptive ReviewScience and Engineering Ethics 27 (2): 1-22. 2021.While the implementation of digital technology in psychiatry appears promising, there is an urgent need to address the implications of the absence of ethical design in the early development of such technologies. Some authors have noted the gap between technology development and ethical analysis and have called for an upstream examination of the ethical issues raised by digital technologies. In this paper, we address this suggestion, particularly in relation to digital healthcare technologies for…Read more
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25Development and Identity of Swiss BioethicsIn Kazumasa Hoshino, H. Tristram Engelhardt & Lisa M. Rasmussen (eds.), Bioethics and Moral Content: National Traditions of Health Care Morality: Papers Dedicated in Tribute to Kazumasa Hoshino, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 3--121. 2002.
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51Keeping the “Human in the Loop” in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Accompanying Commentary for “Correcting the Brain?” by Rainey and ErdenScience and Engineering Ethics 26 (5): 2455-2460. 2020.The benefits of Artificial Intelligence in medicine are unquestionable and it is unlikely that the pace of its development will slow down. From better diagnosis, prognosis, and prevention to more precise surgical procedures, AI has the potential to offer unique opportunities to enhance patient care and improve clinical practice overall. However, at this stage of AI technology development it is unclear whether it will de-humanize or re-humanize medicine. Will AI allow clinicians to spend less tim…Read more
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31“Virtue Engineering” and Moral Agency: Will Post-Humans Still Need the Virtues?American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 2 (4): 3-9. 2011.It is not the purpose of this article to evaluate the techno-scientific claims of the transhumanists. Instead, I question seriously the nature of the ethics and morals they claim can, or soon will, be manipulated artificially. I argue that while the possibility to manipulate human behavior via emotional processes exists, the question still remains concerning the content of morality. In other words, neural moral enhancement does not capture the fullness of human moral psychology, which includes m…Read more
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123Can medicalization be good? Situating medicalization within bioethicsTheoretical Medicine and Bioethics 30 (6): 411-425. 2009.Medicalization has been a process articulated primarily by social scientists, historians, and cultural critics. Comparatively little is written about the role of bioethics in appraising medicalization as a social process. The authors consider what medicalization means, its definition, functions, and criteria for assessment. A series of brief case sketches illustrate how bioethics can contribute to the analysis and public policy discussion of medicalization.
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30Neither convention nor constitution - what the debate on stem cell research tells us about the status of the common european ethicsJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 29 (5). 2004.This Article does not have an abstract
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35Review of John Griffiths, Heleen weyers and Maurice Adams, euthanasia and law in europe . Oxford: Hart publishing, 2008 (review)HEC Forum 21 (1): 107-111. 2009.
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89Ethics and Informed Consent of Vagus Nerve Stimulation (VNS) for Patients with Treatment-Resistant Depression (TRD)Neuroethics 3 (1): 13-22. 2010.Since the Nuremberg trials (1947–1949), informed consent has become central for ethical practice in patient care and biomedical research. Codes of ethics emanating from the Nuremberg Code (1947) recognize the importance of protecting patients and research subjects from abuses, manipulation and deception. Informed consent empowers individuals to autonomously and voluntarily accept or reject participation in either clinical treatment or research. In some cases, however, the underlying mental or ph…Read more
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The Neurobiology of Social Disruption: International Perspectives of Psychiatry, Pathology and Society (edited book)Potomic Institute Press. forthcoming.
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46Psychopathy, neurotechnologies, and neuroethicsTheoretical Medicine and Bioethics 35 (1): 1-6. 2014.In the last decade, a series of acts of violence has increased the interest in understanding what prompts individuals to engage in serial killing, bombing, and other violent acts. The shootings of Columbine, Newtown, and Aurora in the United States, and of Oslo in Norway, 9/11, and the recent bombing during the Boston Marathon have raised questions of how to thwart such tragedies as well as of how to detect and possibly “control” individuals posing a threat to public safety. In addition, the lat…Read more
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