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Published in 1998, this book is a collected volume of papers from
the first conference of the European Network for Biomedical ethics.
The main subject of this conference is the ethical assessment of
IVF in view of its concrete application as an infertility treatment
and the consideration of possible alternatives for use. Twenty
years after the introduction and the establishment of this therapy
a more concrete evaluation of its medical indications, social
conditions and consequences, the psychological consequences for the
women involved and the parent-child relationship becomes possible.
The legal and ethical evaluation of the reproduction technology as
regards for example the legal and moral status of supernumery
embyos in cryo-conservation has also to be considered in a European
perspective. The ethical evaluation concentrates today on the new
evolution that IVF technology takes in relation to the extension of
diagnostics possibilities due to genetic research. Little work has
been done on the connection between IVF and genetic diagnostics and
therapy, so the medical and ethical evaluation of the connecting
lines are also included in the book.
Published in 1999, this book discusses issues related to the
current and possible future technological progress in genetic
technology linked to in vitro fertilization, specifically
preimplantation diagnosis and germline gene therapy, from a
scientific and medical as well as from a social, juridical and
ethical point of view. The 31 contributions are divided into six
sections medical and scientific view, personal interests and moral
implications, moral rights and duties, social concepts and moral
implications, choices and decision making, and justice in health
care and legal regulation.
Published in 1998, this book is a collected volume of papers from
the first conference of the European Network for Biomedical ethics.
The main subject of this conference is the ethical assessment of
IVF in view of its concrete application as an infertility treatment
and the consideration of possible alternatives for use. Twenty
years after the introduction and the establishment of this therapy
a more concrete evaluation of its medical indications, social
conditions and consequences, the psychological consequences for the
women involved and the parent-child relationship becomes possible.
The legal and ethical evaluation of the reproduction technology as
regards for example the legal and moral status of supernumery
embyos in cryo-conservation has also to be considered in a European
perspective. The ethical evaluation concentrates today on the new
evolution that IVF technology takes in relation to the extension of
diagnostics possibilities due to genetic research. Little work has
been done on the connection between IVF and genetic diagnostics and
therapy, so the medical and ethical evaluation of the connecting
lines are also included in the book.
Published in 1999, this book discusses issues related to the
current and possible future technological progress in genetic
technology linked to in vitro fertilization, specifically
preimplantation diagnosis and germline gene therapy, from a
scientific and medical as well as from a social, juridical and
ethical point of view. The 31 contributions are divided into six
sections medical and scientific view, personal interests and moral
implications, moral rights and duties, social concepts and moral
implications, choices and decision making, and justice in health
care and legal regulation.
This book brings together a number of essays that are optimistic
about the ways certain neuroscientific insights might advance
philosophical ethics, and other essays that are more circumspect
about the relevance of neuroscience to philosophical ethics. As a
whole, the essays form a self-reflective body of work that
simultaneously seeks to derive normative ethical implications from
neuroscience, and to question whether and how that may be possible
at all. In doing so, the collection brings together psychology,
neuroscience, philosophy of mind, ethics, and philosophy of
science. Neuroscience seeks to understand the biological systems
that guide human behavior and cognition. Normative ethics, on the
other hand, seeks to understand the system of abstract moral
principles dictating how people ought to behave. By studying how
the human brain makes moral judgments, can philosophers learn
anything about the nature of morality itself? A growing number of
researchers believe that neuroscience can, indeed, provide insights
into the questions of philosophical ethics. However, even these
advocates acknowledge that the path from neuroscientific is to
normative ethical ought can be quite fraught.
This book brings together a number of essays that are optimistic
about the ways certain neuroscientific insights might advance
philosophical ethics, and other essays that are more circumspect
about the relevance of neuroscience to philosophical ethics. As a
whole, the essays form a self-reflective body of work that
simultaneously seeks to derive normative ethical implications from
neuroscience, and to question whether and how that may be possible
at all. In doing so, the collection brings together psychology,
neuroscience, philosophy of mind, ethics, and philosophy of
science. Neuroscience seeks to understand the biological systems
that guide human behavior and cognition. Normative ethics, on the
other hand, seeks to understand the system of abstract moral
principles dictating how people ought to behave. By studying how
the human brain makes moral judgments, can philosophers learn
anything about the nature of morality itself? A growing number of
researchers believe that neuroscience can, indeed, provide insights
into the questions of philosophical ethics. However, even these
advocates acknowledge that the path from neuroscientific is to
normative ethical ought can be quite fraught.
This volume summarizes the ethical, social and cultural contexts of
interfacing brains and computers. It is intended for the
interdisciplinary community of BCI stakeholders. Insofar,
engineers, neuroscientists, psychologists, physicians, care-givers
and also users and their relatives are concerned. For about the
last twenty years brain-computer-interfaces (BCIs) have been
investigated with increasing intensity and have in principle shown
their potential to be useful tools in diagnostics, rehabilitation
and assistive technology. The central promise of BCI technology is
enabling severely impaired people in mobility, grasping,
communication, and entertainment. Successful applications are for
instance communication devices enabling locked-in patients in
staying in contact with their environment, or prostheses enabling
paralysed people in reaching and grasping. In addition to this, it
serves as an introduction to the whole field of BCI for any
interested reader.
Cognitive enhancement is the use of drugs, biotechnological
strategies or other means by healthy individuals aiming at the
improvement of cognitive functions such as vigilance, concentration
or memory without any medical need. In particular, the use of
pharmacological substances (caffeine, prescription drugs or illicit
drugs) has received considerable attention during the last few
years. Currently, however, little is known concerning the use of
cognitive enhancers, their effects in healthy individuals and the
place and function of cognitive enhancement in everyday life. The
purpose of the book is to give an overview of the current research
on cognitive enhancement and to provide in-depth insights into the
interdisciplinary debate on cognitive enhancement.
Technological developments in the life sciences confront us with
new facets of a Faustian seduction. Are we "playing God" more and
more, as claimed by critical authors of modernity? Achievements in
genetic research produce ethical dilemmas which need to be the
subject of reflection and debate in modern societies. Denial of
ambivalences that ethical dilemmas arouse constitutes a threat to
societies as well as to individuals. The book presents a
compilation of some of the results of the interdisciplinary
European study "Ethical Dilemmas Due to Prenatal and Genetic
Diagnostics" (EDIG), which investigated some of these dilemmas in
detail in a field which is particularly challenging: prenatal
diagnosis. When results from prenatal diagnosis show fetal
abnormalities, women and their partners are confronted with ethical
dilemmas regarding: the right to know and the right not to know;
decision-making about the remainder of the pregnancy and the desire
for a healthy child; responsibility for the unborn child, for its
well-being and possible suffering; life and death. This book
provides answers from an ethical, psychoanalytical and medical
viewpoint.
This volume summarizes the ethical, social and cultural contexts of
interfacing brains and computers. It is intended for the
interdisciplinary community of BCI stakeholders. Insofar,
engineers, neuroscientists, psychologists, physicians, care-givers
and also users and their relatives are concerned. For about the
last twenty years brain-computer-interfaces (BCIs) have been
investigated with increasing intensity and have in principle shown
their potential to be useful tools in diagnostics, rehabilitation
and assistive technology. The central promise of BCI technology is
enabling severely impaired people in mobility, grasping,
communication, and entertainment. Successful applications are for
instance communication devices enabling locked-in patients in
staying in contact with their environment, or prostheses enabling
paralysed people in reaching and grasping. In addition to this, it
serves as an introduction to the whole field of BCI for any
interested reader.
Technological developments in the life sciences confront us with
new facets of a Faustian seduction. Are we "playing God" more and
more, as claimed by critical authors of modernity? Achievements in
genetic research produce ethical dilemmas which need to be the
subject of reflection and debate in modern societies. Denial of
ambivalences that ethical dilemmas arouse constitutes a threat to
societies as well as to individuals. The book presents a
compilation of some of the results of the interdisciplinary
European study "Ethical Dilemmas Due to Prenatal and Genetic
Diagnostics" (EDIG), which investigated some of these dilemmas in
detail in a field which is particularly challenging: prenatal
diagnosis. When results from prenatal diagnosis show fetal
abnormalities, women and their partners are confronted with ethical
dilemmas regarding: the right to know and the right not to know;
decision-making about the remainder of the pregnancy and the desire
for a healthy child; responsibility for the unborn child, for its
well-being and possible suffering; life and death. This book
provides answers from an ethical, psychoanalytical and medical
viewpoint.
Ethical Dimensions of Commercial and DIY Neurotechnologies Volume
Three, the latest release in the Developments in Neuroethics and
Bioethics series, highlights new advances in the field, with this
new volume presenting interesting chapters on timely topics
surrounding neuroethics and bioethics. Each chapter is written by
an international board of authors.
This book investigates how ethics generally precedes legal
regulation, and looks at how changes in codes of ethics represent
an unparalleled window into the research, innovation, and emerging
technologies they seek to regulate. It provides case studies from
the fields of engineering, science, medicine and social science
showing how professional codes of ethics often predate regulation
and help shape the ethical use of emerging technologies and
professional practice. Changes in professional ethics are the
crystallization of ongoing conversation in scientific and
professional fields about how justice, privacy, safety and human
rights should be realized in practice where the law is currently
silent. This book is a significant addition to this area of
practical and professional ethics and is of particular interest to
practitioners, scholars, and students interested in the areas of
practical and applied ethics.
This book investigates how ethics generally precedes legal
regulation, and looks at how changes in codes of ethics represent
an unparalleled window into the research, innovation, and emerging
technologies they seek to regulate. It provides case studies from
the fields of engineering, science, medicine and social science
showing how professional codes of ethics often predate regulation
and help shape the ethical use of emerging technologies and
professional practice. Changes in professional ethics are the
crystallization of ongoing conversation in scientific and
professional fields about how justice, privacy, safety and human
rights should be realized in practice where the law is currently
silent. This book is a significant addition to this area of
practical and professional ethics and is of particular interest to
practitioners, scholars, and students interested in the areas of
practical and applied ethics.
The Human Sciences after the Decade of the Brain brings together
exciting new works that address today's key challenges for a mutual
interaction between cognitive neuroscience and the social sciences
and humanities. Taking up the methodological and conceptual
problems of choosing a neuroscience approach to disciplines such as
philosophy, history, ethics and education, the book deepens
discussions on a range of epistemological, historical, and
sociological questions about the "neuro-turn" in the new
millennium. The book's three sections focus on (i) epistemological
questions posed by neurobiologically informed approaches to
philosophy and history, (ii) neuroscience's influence on
explanations for social and moral behavior, and (iii) the
consequences of the neuro-turn in diverse sectors of social life
such as science, education, film, and human self-understanding.
This book is an important resource both for students and scholars
of cognitive neuroscience and biological psychology interested in
the philosophical, ethical, and societal influences of-and on-their
work as well as for students and scholars from the social sciences
and humanities interested in neuroscience.
Cognitive enhancement is the use of drugs, biotechnological
strategies or other means by healthy individuals aiming at the
improvement of cognitive functions such as vigilance, concentration
or memory without any medical need. In particular, the use of
pharmacological substances (caffeine, prescription drugs or illicit
drugs) has received considerable attention during the last few
years. Currently, however, little is known concerning the use of
cognitive enhancers, their effects in healthy individuals and the
place and function of cognitive enhancement in everyday life. The
purpose of the book is to give an overview of the current research
on cognitive enhancement and to provide in-depth insights into the
interdisciplinary debate on cognitive enhancement.
Das Wort "Gen" wurde 1909 gepragt. Im Rahmen des hierauf
aufbauenden Forschungszweigs der Genetik wurden in den letzten 100
Jahren zahlreiche Kenntnisse uber Struktur und Funktion von
Desoxyribonukleinsaure (DNA) gewonnen. Insbesondere ruckte durch
die Entschlusselung des menschlichen Genoms innerhalb des
Humangenomprojektes und durch hiermit in Zusammenhang stehende
Begleit- und Folgeprojekte in den vergangenen Jahren verstarkt die
Bedeutung genetischer Faktoren fur individuelle Charakteristika des
Menschen und bei der Entstehung von Krankheiten ins Bewusstsein.
UEber diese medizinisch-naturwissenschaftlichen Bereiche
hinausgehend besitzt heute die in einem recht allgemeinen Sinne
verstandene "genetische Information" zudem vielfaltige Auswirkungen
auf unser Selbstverstandnis und Zusammenleben. Im Rahmen des
vorliegenden Sammelbandes wird der Frage nach der Bedeutung
genetischer Information sowohl in biologisch-medizinischer Hinsicht
als auch fur die betreffenden Personen und ihre komplexen
Lebenszusammenhange nachgegangen. Namhafte Vertreterinnen und
Vertreter der Medizin, Biologie, Ethik, Philosophie,
Rechtswissenschaften und anderer Fachgebiete thematisieren hierbei
grundlegende Fragen des Status genetischer Information und der
Bedeutung genetischer Faktoren im Vergleich zu nicht-genetischen
Faktoren sowie UEberlegungen uber die individuellen und
gesellschaftlichen Implikationen des Umgangs mit genetischer
Information.
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