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Guest Editorial: Neuroethics—From Neurotechnology to Healthcare

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2007

JUDY ILLES  and
ERIC RACINE
JUDY ILLES
Affiliation:
Stanford University
ERIC RACINE
Affiliation:
Institut de Recherches Cliniques de Montreal, Canada
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In proportion to other serious illnesses, diseases of the brain and mind represent the greatest—and still increasing—public health burden that Western societies are facing. Consequently, scientists, governments, advocacy groups, and public health authorities are committed to research to tackle the causes and consequences of neurological and psychiatric diseases and to find cures for them. As neuroscience research progresses, ethicists and neuroscientists face numerous ethical challenges to the integration of frontier application of research—neurotechnology—with the delivery of high-quality healthcare. In this special neuroethics issue, we have invited distinguished scholars with diverse disciplinary backgrounds to present their reflections and research on the ethical dimensions of this crucial integration.

Type
SPECIAL SECTION: NEUROETHICS
Information
Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , April 2007 , pp. 125 - 128
Copyright
© 2007 Cambridge University Press

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