Expanding the Taxonomy of Ethical Issues in Surgical Innovation

IF 2.3 2区哲学 Q2 ETHICS

Bioethics Pub Date : 2026-08-11 Epub Date: 2026-03-22 DOI:10.1111/bioe.70107

Jane Johnson, Katrina Hutchison, Wendy Rogers

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Abstract

Surgical innovation poses significant ethical challenges. Previous work has grouped these challenges under four categories: potential harms to patients; compromised informed consent; unfair allocation of healthcare resources; and conflicts of interest. We argue that recent technological developments in surgery warrant the addition of three new ethical challenges to the existing taxonomy: allocating responsibility; impact on relationships; and risks to privacy. Although these challenges predate developments in robotic surgery and Artificial Intelligence, nonetheless these technologies highlight and make more urgent the need to consider these categories and identify how the concerns they raise may be addressed.

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扩大外科创新中伦理问题的分类。

外科创新带来了重大的伦理挑战。以前的工作将这些挑战分为四类：对患者的潜在危害；知情同意受损；医疗资源分配不公平；以及利益冲突。我们认为，最近的技术发展在外科保证增加三个新的伦理挑战，以现有的分类：分配责任；对关系的影响；以及隐私风险。尽管这些挑战早于机器人手术和人工智能的发展，但这些技术强调并迫切需要考虑这些类别，并确定如何解决它们所引起的担忧。

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Bioethics 医学-医学：伦理

CiteScore

4.20

自引率

9.10%

发文量

127

审稿时长

6-12 weeks

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