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This material is relevant to mental health professionals such as therapists, social workers, and other clinicians because it examines how rapid AI and neurotechnology advances outpace current understanding of consciousness. It notes that developing tests for awareness could transform medicine, animal welfare, law, and AI, and that identifying consciousness in machines, brain organoids, or patients may prompt reassessment of responsibility, rights, and moral boundaries.

Article Title: “Existential risk” – Why scientists are racing to define consciousness

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#Consciousness #AIethics #Neurotechnology #MentalHealth #ClinicalEthics

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Dominic Wilkinson Aug 25, 2023

We are hosting an in-person Clinical Ethics Symposium in Oxford: Choice and Autonomy in obstetrics. 5th September. If you are interested (especially those working in obstetrics/midwifery or clinical ethics) you can register here: https://oxforduniversitystores.co.uk/product-catalogue/philosophy-faculty/philosophy-faculty-events/clinical-ethics-symposium-choice-and-autonomy-in-obstetrics #ethics #clinicalethics #obstetrics

CPIPR Apr 23, 2023

The problems addressed in hospital clinical ethics consultations are not novel ethical dilemmas but tend to be disagreements between physicians and patients about treatment.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31565808

#NICHDImpact #Bioethics #ClinicalEthics #PatientAutonomy #Ethics #Hospital #Clinical

Reinforcing medical authority: clinical ethics consultation and the resolution of conflicts in treatment decisions - PubMed

Despite substantial efforts in the past 15 years to professionalise the field of clinical ethics consultation, sociologists have not re-examined past hypotheses about the role of such services in medical decision-making and their effect on physician authority. In relation to those hypotheses, we exp …

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Marnina Norys, PhD ✅Nov 11, 2022

Labels belong on jars, not people

#ClinicalEthics, #HealthEthics, #BioEthics

https://fragilevirtue.com/2022/11/11/l

Labels belong on jars, not people

One day, Jill hears her supervisor say “I wish that addict would be discharged; he’s a frequent flyer and he’s difficult!” Afterwards, Jill finds she is uncomfortable in the patient’s presence. He …

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