Abstract
Neuroscientific research has iteratively engaged ever more advanced technology and techniques to achieve an enhanced understanding and capability to access and affect the structure and functions of the brain. Neuroscience and neurotechnology should not be viewed as distinct entities, but rather as a reciprocal enterprise (i.e., what has been referred to as neuroscience and technology, neuroS/T) that is being rapidly and broadly translated for applications and use in medicine, public life, and international relations and global security. NeuroS/T research and its applications give rise to a number of neuroethical issues, questions, and problems. Three core issues and three major questions fostered by neuroS/T are presented, and approaches to addressing and resolving these issues are offered, with a view toward revisiting and perhaps revising extant ethical principles so as to develop a more cosmopolitan, yet community-sensitive and responsive neuroethics that is viable in international contexts.
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This work was supported by a grant from the Children’s Hospital and Clinics Foundation, William H. and Ruth Crane Schaefer Endowment of Gallaudet University, Clark Foundation, an unrestricted research and educational grant from Thync Biotechnologies, and funding from the Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA. Parts of this essay were adapted, with permission, from Giordano J. 2014. The human prospect(s) of neuroscience and neurotechnology: Domains of influence and the necessity – and questions – of neuroethics. Human Prospect 4(1): 1–18.
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Giordano, J. (2016). Neurotechnology. In: ten Have, H. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Bioethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09483-0_308
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