Neuroethics and Nanoethics: Do We Risk Ethical Myopia?

Neuroethics and Nanoethics: Do We Risk Ethical Myopia?

In recent years, two distinct trajectories of bioethical inquiry have emerged: neuroethics and nanoethics. The former deals with issues in neuroscience, whereas the latter deals with issues in nanoscience and nanotechnology. In both cases, the ethical inquiries have coalesced in response to rapidly increasing scientific and engineering developments in each field. Both also present major issues ...

[Neuroethics: Ethical Endowments of Human Brain].

The neurobiological processes underlying moral judgement have been the focus of Neuroethics. Neurosciences demonstrate which cerebral areas are active and inactive whilst people decide how to act when facing a moral dilemma; in this way we know the correlation between determined cerebral areas and our human acts. We can explain how the ″ethical endowments″ of each person, common to all human be...

Nanoethics: Assessing the Nanoscale from an Ethical Point of View

In this paper we raise and analyze three fundamental issues related to nanotechnology. First, although nanotechnology is frequently discussed, it is a difficult field to understand and define. We suggest at least a working characterization of the nature and organization of nanotechnology. Second, we examine the nature of nanoethics and motivate why it is a proper concern and possibly an emergin...

Diagnostic and therapeutic challenges for dermatologists: What shall we do when we don’t know what to do?

What shall we do when we have done everything we could for the diagnosis and treatment of a patient, but were not successful? What shall we do when there is no definite treatment for a patient? What shall we do when we have no diagnosis or treatment for a patient? Some useful suggestions are presented here to get rid of these situations.

Do We Know What We Do not Know? A Response to Celine Bonnet