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The current COVID-19 pandemic is challenging many assumptions and previously accepted norms in medicine, medical research and society in general. Doctors, hospitals and local governments have struggled, for example, to determine how to distribute scarce resources among ...

Advances in cognitive, affective and social neuroscience are raising a number of new questions about the ways in which neuroscience can and should be used. These advances also challenge intuitions about the nature of humans as moral and spiritual beings. Neuroethics...

The COVID-19 pandemic has raised serious medical, ethical and organisational challenges. Although several excellent articles have been published on the ethical aspects of the pandemic from a bioethicist's perspective, a modest literature on the physician's perspective is available. The issues ...

Advances in neuroscience have raised important ethical questions. The recent launch of two major brain projects, the US BRAIN initiative and the European Union Human Brain Project, should accelerate progress in understanding the brain. In this article we will look at...

This conceptual paper presents social, psychological and philosophical (ethical and epistemological) reflections on the current pandemic (COVID-19) using an analytical and comparative approach. The suggestions presented are related to the current and...

The aim of this article is to present neuroethics as a new way of doing ethics. Naeuroethics offers an opportunity to refine the tools that are used. Ethicists often have to resort to intuitions triggered by the consideration of cases in order to assess ...

Nurses and midwives around the world work hard to detect COVID-19 cases, save lives, comfort in the face of death, and educate themselves and the public about protective measures. In many countries, nurses are burdened by...

Increasingly, national governments around the world are prioritising investment in neuroscience. There are currently seven active or in-development national-level brain research initiatives spanning four continents. Engaging in ...

As we can now observe, we live in a world of 'globalised' health, where an outbreak of infectious disease can sow fear. Given this, and the acknowledged range of pandemic diseases that wreak indelible havoc, there is the possibility, indeed the probability, of...

This book explores the ethical, legal and social issues arising from brain imaging, psychopharmacology and other new developments in neuroscience. Neuroscience increasingly allows us to explain, predict and even control aspects of human behaviour....

The ability to anticipate, avoid and resolve ethical conflicts in neuropsychology is a dynamic process that needs to be developed. Ethical codes and professional guidelines are being developed and updated, changes in clinical practice are emerging and...

Where is the line between instinct and free will in humans? How far can technology and medicine go to manipulate the brain? With each new discovery about the human mind, more and more questions arise about the limits of consciousness,...

This essay argues that any ethical approach to mitigating the negative effects of pandemics must give detailed and sustained attention to those on the margins of society. This means tackling widespread racism and concentrated poverty in politics....

This article attempts to review some of the most pressing questions that have been discussed in the aftermath of the COVID-19 outbreak. General questions regarding research into potentially dangerous viruses are considered, ethical issues surrounding the conduct of...

Neurosurgical interventions can alter a person's self-concept and affect neurological and cognitive function to a level that is unacceptable to both patient and family. In an increasingly complex and evolving field, the ethical implications...