Abstract A human-centric approach to the design and deployment of AI systems aims support augment human capabilities. This sounds worthwhile indeed. But what could this look like in a military context? We explored highly autonomous, unarmed Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), or drone, an associated Decision Support System (DSS), for drone’s operator. explore how Human–Machine Teaming, through such ...

This special issue of theHPJAdeals with ethics and health promotion. The accompanying editorial focuses particularly on Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC) approval for health promotion research, evaluation and quality assurance (QA), based on the first three papers in this issue. In this brief editorial, we introduce the remaining papers, noting some common threads that are woven through th...

Ethics is a growing interest for neuroscientists, but rather than signifying a commitment to the protection of human subjects, care of animals, and public understanding to which the professional community is engaged in a fundamental way, interest has been consumed by administrative overhead and the mission creep of institutional ethics reviews. Faculty, trainees, and staff (n = 605) in North Am...

It is nearly forty years since the first committees were established to review the ethical acceptability of research using animals. Drivers for the establishment of these committees were the recognition that such activities presented ethical challenges and that, given the level of controversy in the wider community, scientists needed to demonstrate responsibility and accountability for their ac...

Different human expectations and environmental ethics are key factors preventing the creation of marine reserve networks. People are skeptical about the benefits of no-take marine reserves because they have adjusted to scarcity and have low expectations about the productive capability of marine ecosystems. Pauly (1995) described this as a shifting baseline in which each generation sets its expe...

biomedical ethics is a branch of professional or practical ethics that examine the moral aspects of profession of medicine. every professional ethics due its issues and problems determine an especial theory and principles. in this article after referring to the three branches of ethics and describing important schools of ethical theory we have explained the six main approaches to biomedical eth...

Are new concepts needed in biomedical ethics to keep pace with the developments in postHuman Genome Project genomics? This thesis examines the challenges that developments in post-Human Genome Project (HGP) genomics pose to the established concepts and practices of – Western world – biomedical ethics. These challenges are relevant to the various roles that ethics plays, as for example, its role...

Decisions must be justified. In medical ethics various grounds are given to justify decisions, but ultimate justification seems illusory and little considered. The philosopher Wittgenstein discusses the problem of ultimate justification in the context of general philosophy. His comments, nevertheless, are pertinent to ethics. From a discussion of Wittgensteinian notions, such as 'bedrock', the ...

Departments of Medicine and Medical Ethics, The Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, Department of Surgery, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, and International Children’s Heart Foundation, Memphis, Tennessee, and Department of Surgery and Institute of Human Values in Health Care, South Carolina Clinical and Translational Research ...