Engineering Minds? Ethical Considerations on Biotechnological Approaches to Mental Health, Well-Being, and Human Flourishing.

Our bodies can be designed and modified in accordance with our ideals of health and well-being. These increasingly targeted and personalized interventions will be more effective than current therapies. Here we review technologies to alter mood, and explore the ethics of bioengineering approaches to mental health.

• Publication year

  2021

• Venue

  Trends in Biotechnology

• Publication date

  2021-05-03

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Philosophy, Engineering

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1016/j.tibtech.2021.04.007PMID 33958228
• External record

  Open on Semantic Scholar

• Source metadata

  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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• No concepts are published for this paper.

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