The Promises of Emerging Diagnostics: From Scientists’ Visions to the Laboratory Bench and Back

摘要: Emerging technologies raise hopes and concerns about their potential consequences for societies. How will neurotechnologies affect our social standards of normality? new diagnostic change the doctor-patient relationship? should we deal with privacy issues raised by biobanking? data flow in brain-computer interface systems be protected? Asking these types exploratory questions is important modern societies order to prepared when problems arise, guide citizens, policy-makers technology developers more reflexive work (Grunwald 2010; Kass 2003). In this spirit, Western have, last decade, tried investigate so-called ethical, legal (ELSI) technologies.