A four-part working bibliography of neuroethics: part 1: overview and reviews – defining and describing the field and its practices

Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine

James Giordano²  Martina Darragh¹  Liana Buniak³ 

[1] Bioethics Research Library, Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University, Washington, DC 20057, USA;Human Science Center, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, München, Germany;Neuroethics Studies Program, Edmund D. Pellegrino Center for Clinical Bioethics, Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington, DC 20057, USA

关键词: Bibliography;    Ethics;    Bioethics;    Neurobioethics;    Neuroscience;    Neuroethics;   

Others  :  816362
DOI  :  10.1186/1747-5341-9-9

 received in 2014-04-02, accepted in 2014-04-20,  发布年份 2014

【 摘 要 】

Background

Neuroethics entails investigations of neurocognitive mechanisms of morality and ethics; and studies and address of the ethical issues spawned by the use of neuroscience and its technologies to investigate cognition, emotion and actions. These two principal emphases, or what have been called “traditions” of neuroethics both mirror traditional bioethical discussions (such as debates about the safety of technological and pharmaceutical advances and ethical implications of new scientific and technological discoveries), and engage discourse about neuroscientific investigations of (proto-moral and moral) cognition, emotions and behaviors, and what such findings may mean for human beliefs and conduct - from the individual to the political levels.

Given the growth, range, and rapid maturation of the field of neuroethics we provide an iterative, four-part document that affords a repository of international papers, books, and chapters that address the field in overview, and present discussion(s) of more particular aspects and topics of neuroethics. This first installment lists reviews and overviews of the discipline, and broad summaries of basic developments and issues of the field.

Methods

To systematically survey the neuroethics literature, searches were performed by accessing 11 databases, 8 additional literature depositories, and 4 individual journal searches using indexing language for National Library of Medicine (NLM) Medical Subject Heading databases. Searches and assurance against overlapping coverage were conducted using the RefWorks citation management program.

Results

Overview, review and reflections upon the history and multicultural perspectives of neuroethics were obtained and relevant listings from international journals, books, and book chapters are provided. Part I will be followed by three installments that will address a): the neuroscience of morality and ethics, including discussions of free will, and personal autonomy; b) “second tradition neuroethics”, to include specific ethical issues in neuroscience; clinical neuroethics; and c) neuroethics education/training; neuroethics and society; neuroethics and law; neuroethics and policy; and international neuroethics.

【 授权许可】

   
2014 Buniak et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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【 参考文献 】

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• [2]Roskies A: Neuroethics for the new millenium. Neuron 2002, 35(1):21-23. doi:10.1016/S0896-6273(02)00763-8
• [3]Safire W: Our new Promethean gift. In Neuroethics: Mapping the Field. Edited by Marcus SJ. NY: Dana Press; 2004.
• [4]Marcus SJ (Ed): Neuroethics: Mapping the Field. NY: Dana Press; 2004.