The neuroethics of biomarkers : what the development of bioprediction means for moral responsibility, justice, and the nature of mental disorder / by Matthew L. Baum
Edition
First edition
Published
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2016]
The biomedical promise of biomarkers -- Bioprediction of brain disorder : definitions and scope -- "There is more light here" : re-illuminating the categories of mental -- The probability dysfunction -- The practical ethics of predictive markers in diagnosis : can risk banding address the ethical controversy surrounding "psychosis risk syndrome" and "preclinical Alzheimer's disease"? -- Enhanced responsibility : foreseeability and new obligations to others -- Reduced responsibility : distinguishing conditions in which biomarkers properly reduce legal responsibility -- Bioprediction and priority -- Conclusion
Summary
Neuroscientists are mining nucleic acids, fluids, and brain images for biomarkers of risk of brain disorders. This book brings clarity to several debates on the neuroethics of biomarkers by arguing for the abandonment of a categorical concept of disorder (sick vs. well) and the adoption of an explicitly probabilistic one
