Neurotechnology: Current Developments and Ethical Issues

Neurotechnology: Current Developments and Ethical Issues

Pain Assessment: Subjectivity, Objectivity, and the Use of Neurotechnology Part One: Practical and Ethical Issues

phenomenon of pain so as to determine the right treatments for both the pain syndrome and the patient in whom the pathology is expressed. However, the experience of pain — and its expression — remains enigmatic. Can currently available evaluative tools, questionnaires, and scales actually provide adequately objective information about the experiential dimensions of pain? Can, or will, current a...

ethical dilemmas in art : current issues

Most treatments in assisted reproduction raise ethical issues, and it is difficult to be exhaustive and detailed. Nevertheless, the aim of this chapter was to highlight the main ethical concerns that have been discussed since the inception of the complex, although now routine, technique of IVF. That the human embryo could be observed outside the body captured the world’s imagination, in a diffe...

Current ethical issues in organ transplantation.

Ethics in a medical context have been defined by Professor Gordon Dunstan' as "the obligations of a moral nature which govern the practice of medicine". Ethics are expressed in the language of duties: the duty in general to serve and protect the interests of patients in ways consistent with the corporate ethics of the profession, and the moral values held in common with society. These duties, r...

Stem cell science: current ethical and policy issues.

There is increasing support for embryonic stem (ES) cell research on both sides of the Atlantic. In the United States, the outcome is more funding from non-federal sources, despite the current administration's opposing views. In Europe, a similar pragmatic turn is in the making, but the future is still uncertain. Acceptance of ES cells is mitigated by the uncritical belief that their use is eth...