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Machine medical ethics
Abstract
The essays in this book, written by researchers from both humanities and sciences, describe various theoretical and experimental approaches to adding medical ethics to a machine in medical settings.
Medical machines are in close proximity with human beings, and getting closer: 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. In such contexts, machines 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 to address these 21st-century concerns.
Details | Table of Contents
pp.17-32
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08108-3_2the quality of care, the role of machines, and the need for new skills
pp.33-47
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08108-3_3pp.49-65
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08108-3_4theory and data
pp.93-110
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08108-3_7scarcity and complex medical machines
pp.131-150
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08108-3_9caring for robotic care-givers
pp.151-166
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08108-3_10legal necessity or science fiction?
pp.167-177
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08108-3_11machine support of ethical decisions of doctors
pp.181-206
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08108-3_12when a human is delusive but the machine has its wits about him
pp.233-254
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08108-3_15an automatic therapist using bottom-up and top-down approaches
pp.257-272
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08108-3_16pp.273-290
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08108-3_17pp.291-316
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08108-3_18chances and challenges
pp.317-339
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-08108-3_19Publication details
Publisher: Springer
Place: Dordrecht
Year: 2015
Pages: 369
Series: Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation
Series volume: 74
ISBN (hardback): 978-3-319-08107-6
ISBN (digital): 978-3-319-08108-3
Full citation:
van Rysewyk Simon, Pontier Matthijs (2015) Machine medical ethics. Dordrecht, Springer.