McTernan, Emily;
(2018)
Those who forget the past: An ethical challenge from the history of treating deviance.
In: Birks, David and Douglas, Thomas, (eds.)
Treatment For Crime: Philosophical Essays on Neurointerventions in Criminal Justice.
(pp. 274-288).
Oxford University Press: Oxford, UK.
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Abstract
Treating those who commit crimes or behave in ways deemed socially undesirable with medical interventions targeting the brain, or ‘neurointerventions’, comes with a history. That history is one full of appalling cases, including the chemical castration of men convicted of consensual same-sex relations, electric shocks to treat the ‘non-compliant’, and lobotomies. This chapter argues that this appalling history of using neurointerventions to respond to socially undesirable behaviour should affect our assessment of whether it is ethical to try again. In particular, proponents of such neurointerventions must defend their actions as different to those of the past in ethically salient ways, but it turns out to be very hard for them to do so.
| Type: | Book chapter |
|---|---|
| Title: | Those who forget the past: An ethical challenge from the history of treating deviance |
| ISBN-13: | 9780198758617 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1093/oso/9780198758617.003.0016 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198758617.003.0016 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| Keywords: | Neurointervention, crime, history, pessimistic induction, medical intervention, moral progress |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Dept of Political Science |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1547658 |
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