Ethics in Neuroscience - Current Issues

Focus: current issues in medical ethics.

The current debates about seat belts in motor cars and the evils of smoking may only be straws in the wind if the scenario sketched in this paper were translated into a social, political programme. Then 'illness would increasingly be seen as a failure to keep healthy and thus culpable. The failures [the patients] ... must either be irresponsible and hence punishable at least by the imposition o...

Onm-16: Ethics Issues in Assisted ReproductiveTechnology

Neuroscience and Ethics

Ethical issues in neuroscience.

PURPOSE OF REVIEW The study gives an overview of ethical questions raised by the progress of neuroscience in identifying and intervening in neural correlates of the mind. RECENT FINDINGS Ethical problems resulting from brain research have induced the emergence of a new discipline termed neuroethics. Critical questions concern issues, such as prediction of disease, psychopharmacological enhanc...

Emerging ethical issues in neuroscience

1123 In less than a year, “neuroethics” has joined the vocabulary of most neuroscientists. Exactly what the word signifies may not be clear to most of us, however. Both the word and the field to which it refers come largely from individuals outside neuroscience. Newspaper columnist William Safire gave the field its name, and defining statements of the issues are found in such sources as Brain P...