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. Ed(S): Van Rysewyk, Simon Peter; Pontier, Matthijs - Machine Medical Ethics - 9783319081076 - V9783319081076
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Machine Medical Ethics

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Description for Machine Medical Ethics Hardback. Editor(s): van Rysewyk, Simon Peter; Pontier, Matthijs. Series: Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering. Num Pages: 382 pages, 8 black & white illustrations, 11 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; MBDC; MBNH9; TJFM1; UYQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 22. Weight in Grams: 781.

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 ... Read more

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.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
382
Condition
New
Series
Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering
Number of Pages
369
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319081076
SKU
V9783319081076
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-15

About . Ed(S): Van Rysewyk, Simon Peter; Pontier, Matthijs
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, ... Read more

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