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@PHDTHESIS{Lyreskog:824521,
      author       = {Lyreskog, David Magnus},
      othercontributors = {Nagel, Saskia K. and Karlawish, Jason},
      title        = {{T}he ethics of mind maintenance : analysing trade-offs for
                      emerging technologies aimed at preventing and treating
                      age-related neural decline and disease},
      school       = {Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen},
      type         = {Dissertation},
      address      = {Aachen},
      publisher    = {RWTH Aachen University},
      reportid     = {RWTH-2021-07651},
      pages        = {1 Online-Ressource : Illustrationen},
      year         = {2020},
      note         = {Veröffentlicht auf dem Publikationsserver der RWTH Aachen
                      University 2021; Dissertation, Rheinisch-Westfälische
                      Technische Hochschule Aachen, 2020},
      abstract     = {Age-related neural decline and disease is a growing global
                      problem. To the challenge of suffering and death caused by
                      such conditions, rise technologies to help detect, monitor,
                      prevent, and treat the causes and symptoms of
                      neurodegenerative disease: nano- and microfluidic on-chip
                      labs, optogenetic brain stimulation, and bioprinting of
                      tissue for neurotransplantation – these emerging medical
                      technologies promise to provide better healthcare for people
                      who in the future will suffer from age-related neurological
                      diseases, or risk to suffer from them. However, there are
                      ethical issues associated with each method and technology.
                      These issues are rooted in the possible opportunities and
                      threats against many commonly endorsed moral values, ranging
                      from privacy, to wellbeing, to self-determination and
                      autonomy, to personal identity. Ultimately, if we understand
                      retention of the mind as a necessary criterium for our
                      continued existence, the value of life itself stands to be
                      at stake. In the pursuit of fighting the threats that are
                      part of aging, we are faced with a turmoil of complex value
                      conflicts. The choices that will have to be made in clinics
                      and doctors’ offices around the world will at best be
                      difficult to make – and possibly unmanageable, if ethical
                      soundness is to be achieved in the process. And yet, those
                      decisions will need to be made. In a not too distant future,
                      many of us will sit in the office of our GP, a hospital
                      room, in a specialist clinic, or perhaps by our kitchen
                      table, facing the reality of those fundamental,
                      philosophical questions: ‘What should I give, what should
                      I sacrifice, in order to have a chance to fight the decline,
                      retain my mental health, and prolong my existence?’. In
                      some cases, we may also have to make such decisions for
                      others, if they are less able to do so themselves.
                      Regardless, the circle is made complete: from large,
                      philosophical questions to everyday life dilemmas, we are
                      forced to revisit those large questions to find solutions to
                      our dilemmas. This dissertation is an attempt to reach over
                      the gap between fundamental philosophical and ethical
                      questions on the one side, and everyday medical
                      decision-making on the other. The main objective is to
                      provide a guiding structure for how we can navigate the
                      oftentimes complex and opaque value conflicts that arise
                      with emerging technological measures for age-related neural
                      decline and disease.},
      cin          = {711120},
      ddc          = {100},
      cid          = {$I:(DE-82)711120_20180704$},
      typ          = {PUB:(DE-HGF)11},
      doi          = {10.18154/RWTH-2021-07651},
      url          = {https://publications.rwth-aachen.de/record/824521},
}