Editing Neurosurgery (section)

== Bioethics in neurosurgery ==
Neurosurgery is a part of practical [[medicine]] and the only specialty that involves invasive intervention in the activity of the living brain. The brain ensures the structural and functional integrity of the body and the implementation of all the main life processes of the body. Therefore, neurosurgery faces a wide range of bioethical issues and a significant selection of the latest [[Medical treatment|treatment]] technologies.<ref name="ModernProblems2009">{{Cite book |last=Moroz |first=V.A. |title=Suchasni problemy bioetyky |publisher=Akademperiodyka |year=2009 |isbn=978-966-615-333-6 |language=uk |trans-title=Modern problems of bioethics}}</ref>

Neurosurgery has the following applied scientific and ethical problems:

* Ethical and legal aspects of [[clinical research]];
* Αxiological deficit due to [[professional deformation]] and [[professional burnout]];
* Limited access to expensive medical services;
* The industry-specific problem of "[[medical error]]" due to the complexity of neurosurgical [[pathologies]] and the huge number of possible technologies and tools for their [[Medical treatment|treatment]];
* Controversial bioethical and legal issues of surgery for the treatment of [[psychiatric diseases]];
* Bioethical discussions regarding the instrumentation of [[reconstructive surgery]], through the use of experimental technologies;
* Debatable bioethical issues of improving human brain activity with the help of artificial [[Implant (medicine)|implants]], for instance neurocomponents (artificial impulse quasi-[[neuron]]s);
* [[Cyborgization]] in [[transhumanism]] meaning;<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Jiménez-Ponce |first1=F. |last2=García-Muñoz |first2=L. |last3=Carrillo-Ruiz |first3=J. D. |date=2015-01-01 |title=The role of bioethics in the neurosurgical treatment of psychiatric disorders |url=http://www.elsevier.es/en-revista-revista-medica-del-hospital-general-325-articulo-the-role-bioethics-in-neurosurgical-S0185106315000190 |journal=Revista Médica del Hospital General de México |language=en |volume=78 |issue=1 |pages=47–54 |doi=10.1016/j.hgmx.2015.04.001 |issn=0185-1063 |access-date=2024-06-02 |archive-date=2024-06-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240602172819/https://www.elsevier.es/en-revista-revista-medica-del-hospital-general-325-articulo-the-role-bioethics-in-neurosurgical-S0185106315000190 |url-status=live |doi-access=free }}</ref>
* Ethical issue of [[standardization]] of research protocols for testing [[neuroengineering]] means of nerve tissue [[Regeneration (biology)|regeneration]] in order to improve the [[implementation]] of experimental research results in [[clinical practice]].<ref name="ModernProblems2009" />