The future of implantable neuroprosthetic devices: Ethical considerations

Journal of Long-Term Effects of Medical Implants

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 123-137

  Chhatbar, Pratik Y ^a,b   Saha, Subrata ^a,b  

^a SUNY DOWNSTATE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Downstate Health Sciences University   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethics; Medical implants; Neural prostheses; Neuroprosthetics; Newer technologies

Indexed keywords

COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; MICROELECTRODES; PHILOSOPHICAL ASPECTS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION; ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS; ETHICS; HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS; IMPLANTABLE MICROELECTRODE ARRAYS; MEDICAL IMPLANTS; NEUROPROSTHETICS; NON-GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS;

NEURAL PROSTHESES;

CARBON NANOTUBE;

BIOETHICS; BIOTECHNOLOGY; BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE; COCHLEA PROSTHESIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; ELECTROCORTICOGRAPHY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXPERIMENTATION; HEARING AID; HUMAN; MOBILE PHONE; NEUROPROSTHESIS; NONHUMAN; PARKINSONISM; PERCEPTION DEAFNESS; PROSTHESIS; SOCIETY; SUBTHALAMIC IMPLANT; TELECOMMUNICATION; VISUAL PROSTHESIS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; COMPUTER INTERFACE; ELECTRODE IMPLANT; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ETHICS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; NEUROSCIENCE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PROSTHESES AND ORTHOSES; RESEARCH ETHICS; TRENDS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENTATION; BIOETHICAL ISSUES; COCHLEAR IMPLANTS; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; ETHICS, RESEARCH; HUMANS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; NEUROSCIENCES; PARKINSON DISEASE; PROSTHESES AND IMPLANTS; TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT, BIOMEDICAL; USER-COMPUTER INTERFACE;

EID: 77955765206     PISSN: 10506934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1615/JLongTermEffMedImplants.v19.i2.40     Document Type: Conference Paper

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