RT Article
T1 Brain Pioneers and Moral Entanglement: An Argument for Post-trial Responsibilities in Neural-Device Trials
JF The Hastings Center report
VO 54
IS 1
SP 24
OP 33
A1 Goering, Sara
A1 Brown, Andrew I.
A1 Klein, Eran
LA English
PB Wiley
YR 2024
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1881547213
AB We argue that in implanted neurotechnology research, participants and researchers experience what Henry Richardson has called “moral entanglement.” Participants partially entrust researchers with access to their brains and thus to information that would otherwise be private, leading to created intimacies and special obligations of beneficence for researchers and research funding agencies. One of these obligations, we argue, is about continued access to beneficial technology once a trial ends. We make the case for moral entanglement in this context through exploration of participants’ vulnerability, uncompensated risks and burdens, depth of relationship with the research team, and dependence on researchers in implanted neurotechnology trials.
K1 research ethics
K1 neurotechnology
K1 Risk
K1 Dependence
K1 post-trial obligation
K1 Vulnerability
K1 moral entanglement
K1 neural device
DO 10.1002/hast.1566