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The road being paved to neuroethics: A path leading to bioethics or to neuroscience medical ethics?
In 2013, U.S. President Barack Obama decreed the creation of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, as part of his $100 million Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) initiative. In the wake of the work of this Commission, the purpose, goals, p...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4199184/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25324975 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2152-7806.142323 |
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description | In 2013, U.S. President Barack Obama decreed the creation of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, as part of his $100 million Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) initiative. In the wake of the work of this Commission, the purpose, goals, possible shortcomings, and even dangers are discussed, and the possible impact it may have upon neuroscience ethics (Neuroethics) both in clinical practice as well as scientific research. Concerns were expressed that government involvement in bioethics may have unforeseen and possibly dangerous repercussions to neuroscience in particular and to medicine in general. The author emphasizes that the lessons of history chronicle that wherever governments have sought to alter medical ethics and control medical care, the results have frequently been perverse and disastrous, as in the examples of the communist Soviet Union and National Socialist (Nazi) Germany. The Soviet psychiatrists’ and the Nazi doctors’ dark descent into ghastly experimentation and brutality was a product of convoluted ethics and physicians willingly cooperating with authoritarianism citing utilitarianism in the pursuit of the ‘collective’ or ‘greater good.’ Thus in the 20(th) century, as governments infringed on the medical profession, even the Liberal Democracies have not been immune to the corruption of ethics in science and medicine. |
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spelling | pubmed-41991842014-10-16 The road being paved to neuroethics: A path leading to bioethics or to neuroscience medical ethics? Faria, Miguel A. Surg Neurol Int Editorial In 2013, U.S. President Barack Obama decreed the creation of the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues, as part of his $100 million Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) initiative. In the wake of the work of this Commission, the purpose, goals, possible shortcomings, and even dangers are discussed, and the possible impact it may have upon neuroscience ethics (Neuroethics) both in clinical practice as well as scientific research. Concerns were expressed that government involvement in bioethics may have unforeseen and possibly dangerous repercussions to neuroscience in particular and to medicine in general. The author emphasizes that the lessons of history chronicle that wherever governments have sought to alter medical ethics and control medical care, the results have frequently been perverse and disastrous, as in the examples of the communist Soviet Union and National Socialist (Nazi) Germany. The Soviet psychiatrists’ and the Nazi doctors’ dark descent into ghastly experimentation and brutality was a product of convoluted ethics and physicians willingly cooperating with authoritarianism citing utilitarianism in the pursuit of the ‘collective’ or ‘greater good.’ Thus in the 20(th) century, as governments infringed on the medical profession, even the Liberal Democracies have not been immune to the corruption of ethics in science and medicine. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014-10-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4199184/ /pubmed/25324975 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2152-7806.142323 Text en Copyright: © 2014 Faria AM Jr. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Editorial Faria, Miguel A. The road being paved to neuroethics: A path leading to bioethics or to neuroscience medical ethics? |
title | The road being paved to neuroethics: A path leading to bioethics or to neuroscience medical ethics? |
title_full | The road being paved to neuroethics: A path leading to bioethics or to neuroscience medical ethics? |
title_fullStr | The road being paved to neuroethics: A path leading to bioethics or to neuroscience medical ethics? |
title_full_unstemmed | The road being paved to neuroethics: A path leading to bioethics or to neuroscience medical ethics? |
title_short | The road being paved to neuroethics: A path leading to bioethics or to neuroscience medical ethics? |
title_sort | road being paved to neuroethics: a path leading to bioethics or to neuroscience medical ethics? |
topic | Editorial |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4199184/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25324975 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2152-7806.142323 |
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