For decades, physicians, philosophers, theologians, lawyers, and the public considered brain death a settled issue. However, a series of recent cases in which individuals were declared brain dead yet physiologically maintained for prolonged periods o...
In a 2015 Hastings Center Report essay, Robert Truog and his coauthors argued that the clinical ethics portion of medical education should cast both a wider and a finer net than is sometimes realized. Many of the morally important moments in patient ...
The international journal of medical robotics + computer assisted surgery : MRCAS
Feb 1, 2019
BACKGROUND: This paper aims to move the debate forward regarding the potential for artificial intelligence (AI) and autonomous robotic surgery with a particular focus on ethics, regulation and legal aspects (such as civil law, international law, tort...
Soins; la revue de reference infirmiere
Nov 1, 2018
The arrival of robots in our society often arouses fantasies and fears. Emotional and social robots are already being used in healthcare. Ethical analysis is necessary to regulate the use of these objects which are able to simulate dialogues, appeari...
The introduction of the modern diagnostic and therapeutic procedures to the medical practice provided a new challenge for the medicine. The art of medicine, with its default purpose of acting for the benefit of health, is therefore required to derive...