A comparative review on neuroethical issues in neuroscientific and neuroethical journals
This study is a pilot literature review that compares the interest of neuroethicists and neuroscientists. It aims to determine whether there is a significant gap between the neuroethical issues addressed in philosophical neuroethics journals and neuroscience journals. We retrieved 614 articles from...
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| author | Shu Ishida Yu Nishitsutsumi Hideki Kashioka Takahisa Taguchi Ryuma Shineha |
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| description | This study is a pilot literature review that compares the interest of neuroethicists and neuroscientists. It aims to determine whether there is a significant gap between the neuroethical issues addressed in philosophical neuroethics journals and neuroscience journals. We retrieved 614 articles from two specialist neuroethics journals (Neuroethics and AJOB Neuroscience) and 82 neuroethics-focused articles from three specialist neuroscience journals (Neuron, Nature Neuroscience, and Nature Reviews Neuroscience). We classified these articles in light of the neuroethical issue in question before we compared the neuroethical issues addressed in philosophical neuroethics with those addressed by neuroscientists. A notable result is a parallelism between them as a general tendency. Neuroscientific articles cover most neuroethical issues discussed by philosophical ethicists and vice versa. Subsequently, there are notable discrepancies between the two bodies of neuroethics literature. For instance, theoretical questions, such as the ethics of moral enhancement and the philosophical implications of neuroscientific findings on our conception of personhood, are more intensely discussed in philosophical-neuroethical articles. Conversely, neuroscientific articles tend to emphasize practical questions, such as how to successfully integrate ethical perspectives into scientific research projects and justifiable practices of animal-involving neuroscientific research. These observations will help us settle the common starting point of the attempt at “ethics integration” in emerging neuroscience, contributing to better governance design and neuroethical practice. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-87979f5edaa44b409288cf3220a5f92f2023-09-14T11:56:00ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Neuroscience1662-453X2023-09-011710.3389/fnins.2023.11606111160611A comparative review on neuroethical issues in neuroscientific and neuroethical journalsShu Ishida0Yu Nishitsutsumi1Hideki Kashioka2Takahisa Taguchi3Ryuma Shineha4Graduate School of Life Sciences, Tohoku University, Sendai, JapanCenter for Information and Neural Networks, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Suita, JapanCenter for Information and Neural Networks, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Suita, JapanCenter for Information and Neural Networks, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Suita, JapanResearch Center on Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues, Osaka University, Suita, JapanThis study is a pilot literature review that compares the interest of neuroethicists and neuroscientists. It aims to determine whether there is a significant gap between the neuroethical issues addressed in philosophical neuroethics journals and neuroscience journals. We retrieved 614 articles from two specialist neuroethics journals (Neuroethics and AJOB Neuroscience) and 82 neuroethics-focused articles from three specialist neuroscience journals (Neuron, Nature Neuroscience, and Nature Reviews Neuroscience). We classified these articles in light of the neuroethical issue in question before we compared the neuroethical issues addressed in philosophical neuroethics with those addressed by neuroscientists. A notable result is a parallelism between them as a general tendency. Neuroscientific articles cover most neuroethical issues discussed by philosophical ethicists and vice versa. Subsequently, there are notable discrepancies between the two bodies of neuroethics literature. For instance, theoretical questions, such as the ethics of moral enhancement and the philosophical implications of neuroscientific findings on our conception of personhood, are more intensely discussed in philosophical-neuroethical articles. Conversely, neuroscientific articles tend to emphasize practical questions, such as how to successfully integrate ethical perspectives into scientific research projects and justifiable practices of animal-involving neuroscientific research. These observations will help us settle the common starting point of the attempt at “ethics integration” in emerging neuroscience, contributing to better governance design and neuroethical practice.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2023.1160611/fullresponsible research and innovation (RRI)ethics integrationliterature reviewcomparative analysisneuroethical journalsneuroscientific journals |
| spellingShingle | Shu Ishida Yu Nishitsutsumi Hideki Kashioka Takahisa Taguchi Ryuma Shineha A comparative review on neuroethical issues in neuroscientific and neuroethical journals Frontiers in Neuroscience responsible research and innovation (RRI) ethics integration literature review comparative analysis neuroethical journals neuroscientific journals |
| title | A comparative review on neuroethical issues in neuroscientific and neuroethical journals |
| title_full | A comparative review on neuroethical issues in neuroscientific and neuroethical journals |
| title_fullStr | A comparative review on neuroethical issues in neuroscientific and neuroethical journals |
| title_full_unstemmed | A comparative review on neuroethical issues in neuroscientific and neuroethical journals |
| title_short | A comparative review on neuroethical issues in neuroscientific and neuroethical journals |
| title_sort | comparative review on neuroethical issues in neuroscientific and neuroethical journals |
| topic | responsible research and innovation (RRI) ethics integration literature review comparative analysis neuroethical journals neuroscientific journals |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2023.1160611/full |
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