The orwellian threat to emerging neurodiagnostic technologies

American Journal of Bioethics

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 56-58

  Fins, Joseph J ^a,b,c  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b HASTINGS CENTER   (United States)

^c HealthCare Chaplaincy   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; CONFIDENTIALITY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDER; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ETHICIST; ETHICS; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH; HUMAN; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; NOTE; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; POLITICS; PRIVACY; STANDARD; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; UNITED STATES;

BIOMEDICAL AND BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; HEALTH CARE AND PUBLIC HEALTH;

BRAIN MAPPING; COGNITION; CONFIDENTIALITY; CONSCIOUSNESS DISORDERS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES, NEUROLOGICAL; ETHICISTS; HUMANS; LIE DETECTION; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; POLITICS; PRIVACY; UNITED STATES; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT;

EID: 27744577934     PISSN: 15265161     EISSN: 15360075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15265160590960951     Document Type: Note

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