In the October 2014 issue of Medical Ethics Advisor, Jason Karlawish, MD, associate director of the Penn Memory Center, discusses the ethical concerns of preclinical detection of Alzheimer’s disease. “We operationalize our ethic of autonomy through our brain,” Dr. Karlawish says in the article.“So as we talk about labeling people’s brain at risk of decline before they are ill, we are playing with very hot ethical and social issues.”
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