Overview
- First research book exclusively dedicated to machine medical ethics
- Interdisciplinary and cutting-edge focus
- High societal relevance
- Subject is increasingly receiving media attention
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering (ISCA, volume 74)
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Contemporary Challenges in Machine Medical Ethics: Medical Machine Technologies and Models
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Back Matter
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About this book
The essays in this book, written by researchers from both humanities and science, describe various theoretical and experimental approaches to adding medical ethics to a machine, what design features are necessary in order to achieve this, philosophical and practical questions concerning justice, rights, decision-making and responsibility in medical contexts, and accurately modeling essential physician-machine-patient relationships.
In medical settings, machines are in close proximity with human beings: with patients who are in vulnerable states of health, who have disabilities of various kinds, with the very young or very old and with medical professionals. Machines in these contexts are undertaking important medical tasks that require emotional sensitivity, knowledge of medical codes, human dignity and privacy.
As machine technology advances, ethical concerns become more urgent: should medical machines be programmed to follow a code of medical ethics? What theory or theories should constrain medical machine conduct? What design features are required? Should machines share responsibility with humans for the ethical consequences of medical actions? How ought clinical relationships involving machines to be modeled? Is a capacity for empathy and emotion detection necessary? What about consciousness?
This collection is the first book that addresses these 21st-century concerns.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Simon van Rysewyk is a University Associate in the Department of Philosophy, School of Humanities, University of Tasmania. He received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Tasmania in 2013, and from 2013 to 2014 he was a Taiwan National Science Council Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Brain and Consciousness Research Center and Graduate Institute of Medical Humanities, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan. His interests are pain, phenomenology, experiential research methods, and medical ethics. His homepage is here, and he can be contacted at simon.vanrysewyk@utas.edu.au.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Machine Medical Ethics
Editors: Simon Peter van Rysewyk, Matthijs Pontier
Series Title: Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08108-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-08107-6Published: 19 September 2014
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-34997-8Published: 17 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-08108-3Published: 05 September 2014
Series ISSN: 2213-8986
Series E-ISSN: 2213-8994
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 369
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations, 11 illustrations in colour
Topics: Robotics and Automation, Ethics, Artificial Intelligence, Health Psychology, Neurosciences
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