Table of Contents

Preface.- Part I Theoretical Foundations of Machine Medical Ethics.- An Overview of Machine Medical Ethics.- Surgical, Therapeutic, Nursing and Sex Robots in Machine and Information Ethics.- Good Healthcare Is in the “How”: The Quality of Care, the Role of Machines, and the Need for New Skills.- Implementation Fundamentals for Ethical Medical Agents.- Towards a Principle-Based Healthcare Agent.- Do Machines Have Prima Facie Duties?.- A Hybrid Bottom-Up and Top-Down Approach to Machine Medical Ethics: Theory and Data.- Moral Ecology Approaches to Machine Ethics.- Part II Contemporary Challenges in Machine Medical Ethics: Justice, Rights and the Law.- Opportunity Costs: Scarcity and Complex Medical Machines.- The Rights of Machines: Caring for Robotic Care-Givers.- Machine Medical Ethics and Robot Law: Legal Necessity or Science Fiction?.- Part III Contemporary Challenges in Machine Medical Ethics: Decision-Making, Responsibility and Care.- Having the Final Say: Machine Support of Ethical Decisions of Doctors.- Ethics of Robotic Assisted Dying.- Automating Medicine the Ethical Way.-
Machine Medical Ethics: When a Human Is Delusive but the Machine Has Its Wits About Him.- Part IV Contemporary Challenges in Machine Medical Ethics: Medical Machine Technologies and Models.- ELIZA Fifty Years Later: An Automatic Therapist Using Bottom-Up and Top-Down Approaches.- Models of the Patient–Machine–Clinician Relationship in Closed-Loop Machine Neuromodulation.- Modelling Consciousness-Dependent Expertise in Machine Medical Moral Agents.- Emotion and Disposition Detection in Medical Machines: Chances and Challenges.- Ethical and Technical Aspects of Emotions to Create Empathy in Medical Machines.- Epilogue.

About the Author

Simon van Rysewyk is a University Associate in the Department of Philosophy, School of Humanities, University of Tasmania. He received his PhD in Philosophy from the University of Tasmania in 2013, and from 2013 to 2014 he was a Taiwan National Science Council Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Brain and Consciousness Research Center and Graduate Institute of Medical Humanities, Taipei Medical University, Taiwan. His interests are pain, phenomenology, experiential research methods, and medical ethics. His homepage is here, and he can be contacted at simon.vanrysewyk@utas.edu.au.