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Roboethics

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Medical or health care roboethics blends the medical ethics and the roboethics issues. Medical ethics is the branch of applied ethics which refers to the fields of medicine, health care, and nursing. The dominant area where medical roboethics finds application is ‘robotic surgery’. This chapter provides an introduction to medical ethics, in general, and an outline of robotic surgery. It ends with a discussion of robot surgery ethics, and includes a possible scenario of ethical and legal responsibility assignment in a robotic surgical intervention that has led to harm.

Our expectations for a technology rise

with its advancement.

Henry Petroski

In law a man is guilty when he violates

the rights of others In ethics he is

guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

Immanuel Kant

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    For full information a translation in English of the Hippocratic Oath is given in the Appendix (Sect. 6.5) [8].

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Tzafestas, S.G. (2016). Medical Roboethics. In: Roboethics. Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering, vol 79. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-21714-7_6

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