Neuroscientists' everyday experiences of ethics: the interplay of regulatory, professional, personal and tangible ethical spheres

摘要: The ethical issues neuroscience raises are subject to increasing attention, exemplified in the emergence of discipline neuroethics. While moral implications neurotechnological developments often discussed, less is known about how ethics intersects with everyday work and scientists themselves perceive their research. Drawing on observation interviews members one UK group conducting research at both laboratory bench clinic, this article examines what meant these researchers delineates four specific types that shaped day-to-day work: regulatory, professional, personal tangible. first three categories similar those identified elsewhere sociological scientific clinical ethics, notion 'tangible ethics' emerged by attending practice, which scientists' discursive distinctions between right wrong were sometimes challenged. findings shed light positions produce are, turn, produced practice. Informing understandings neuroscience, they also throw category its specificity into question, given did not experience as raising distinctly neuro-ethical.