Overview
- Combines experiences from military and humanitarian operations and academic research
- Provides new perspectives on the pressing ethical issues of medical enhancement and medical research in military and humanitarian contexts
- Contains perspectives from both practitioners and academics in the field of military medical ethics
Part of the book series: Military and Humanitarian Health Ethics (MHHE)
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Table of contents(15 chapters)
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Research and Research Ethics in Military and Humanitarian Contexts
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Military Human Enhancement: “Science-Fiction” in the Real World
Keywords
- medical military ethics
- military medicine
- medical care in the military
- informed consent in the military
- military human enhancement
- transhuman warfare
- autonomous AI systems
- supersoldiers
- AI Brain-Computer interfaces
- genetic manipulation
- military technological enhancement
- vaccine technologies in warfare
About this book
This book discusses ethical questions surrounding research and innovation in military and humanitarian contexts. It focuses on human enhancement in the military. Recently, the availability of medical enhancement designed to make soldiers more capable of surviving during conflict, as well as enabling them to defeat their enemies, has emerged. Innovation and medical research in military and humanitarian contexts may thus yield positive effects, but simultaneously leads to a number of highly problematic ethical issues.
The work contains contributions on medical ethics that take into account the specific roles and obligations of military and humanitarian health care providers and the ethical problems they encounter. They cover different aspects of research and innovation such as vaccine development, medical enhancement, compassionate and experimental drug use, research and application of new technologies such as wearables, “Humanitarian innovation” to cope with scarce resources, Biometrics, big data, etc.The book is of interest and importance to researchers and policy makers involved with human enhancement, medical research, and innovation in military and humanitarian missions.Editors and Affiliations
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Zurich Center for Military Medical Ethics, Center for Ethics, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Daniel Messelken
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Center of Reference for Education on IHL & Ethics, International Committee of Military Medicine, Bern, Switzerland
David Winkler
About the editors
Daniel Messelken is a research associate at the Center for Ethics at Zurich University and leader of the Zurich Center for Military Medical Ethics (www.cmme.uzh.ch). He also serves as Head Ethics Teacher for the Center of Reference for Education on IHL and Ethics of the International Committee of Military Medicine and is member of the Board of Directors of the International Society for Military Ethics in Europe (EuroISME). Dr. Messelken studied Philosophy and Political Science in Leipzig and Paris (1998-2004) and received his PhD in philosophy from the University of Leipzig in 2010. Besides Military Medical Ethics, his main research fields include Just War Theory, the Morality of Violence, Military Ethics, and Applied Ethics more generally.
David T. Winkler is director of the Center of Reference for Education on International Humanitarian Law and Ethics of the International Committee of Military Medicine (www.cimm-icmm.com). He is a medical doctor specializing inneurology and holds a Ph.D. in neurobiology. Lieutenant Colonel Winkler is a staff officer in the Swiss Armed Forces Medical Services Directorate. He conducts clinical and academic work at the University Hospital Basel, and the Cantonal Hospital Baselland, Switzerland.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ethics of Medical Innovation, Experimentation, and Enhancement in Military and Humanitarian Contexts
Editors: Daniel Messelken, David Winkler
Series Title: Military and Humanitarian Health Ethics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-36319-2
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-36318-5Published: 18 March 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-36321-5Published: 18 March 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-36319-2Published: 17 March 2020
Series ISSN: 2524-5465
Series E-ISSN: 2524-5473
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 268
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: Bioethics, International Humanitarian Law, Law of Armed Conflict, Military and Defence Studies