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The Neuroethics of Biomarkers - What the Development of Bioprediction Means for Moral Responsibility, Justice, and the Nature of Mental Disorder (Hardcover)
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The Neuroethics of Biomarkers - What the Development of Bioprediction Means for Moral Responsibility, Justice, and the Nature of Mental Disorder (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Series in Neuroscience, Law, and Philosophy
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Neuroscientists are mining nucleic acids, blood, saliva, and brain
images in hopes of uncovering biomarkers that could help estimate
risk of brain disorders like psychosis and dementia; though the
science of bioprediction is young, its prospects are unearthing
controversy about how bioprediction should enter hospitals,
courtrooms, or state houses. While medicine, law, and policy have
established protocols for how presence of disorders should change
what we owe each other or who we blame, they have no stock answers
for the probabilities that bioprediction offers. The Neuroethics of
Biomarkers observes, however, that for many disorders, what we
really care about is not their presence per se, but certain risks
that they carry. The current reliance of moral and legal structures
on a categorical concept of disorder (sick verses well), therefore,
obscures difficult questions about what types and magnitudes of
probabilities matter. Baum argues that progress in the neuroethics
of biomarkers requires the rejection of the binary concept of
disorder in favor of a probabilistic one based on biological
variation with risk of harm, which Baum names a "Probability
Dysfunction. " This risk-reorientation clarifies practical ethical
issues surrounding the definition of mental disorder in the DSM-5
and the nosology of conditions defined by risk of psychosis and
dementia. Baum also challenges the principle that the acceptability
of bioprediction should depend primarily on whether it is medically
useful by arguing that biomarkers can also be morally useful
through enabling moral agency, better assessment of legal
responsibility, and fairer distributive justice. The Neuroethics of
Biomarkers should be of interest to those within neuroethics,
medical ethics, and the philosophy of psychiatry.
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