The essays in this book, written by researchers from both humanities and science, describe various theoretical and experimental approaches to adding medical ethics to a machine, what design features are necessary in order to achieve this, philosophical and practical questions concerning justice, rights, decision-making and responsibility in medical contexts, and accurately modeling essential physician-machine-patient relationships. In medical settings, machines are in close proximity with human beings: with patients who are in vulnerable states of health, who have disabilities of various kinds, with the very young or very old and with medical professionals. Machines in these contexts are undertaking important medical tasks that require emotional sensitivity, knowledge of medical codes, human dignity and privacy. As machine technology advances, ethical concerns become more urgent: should medical machines be programmed to follow a code of medical ethics? What theory or theories should constrain medical machine conduct? What design features are required? Should machines share responsibility with humans for the ethical consequences of medical actions? How ought clinical relationships involving machines to be modeled? Is a capacity for empathy and emotion detection necessary? What about consciousness? This collection is the first book that addresses these 21st-century concerns.

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1900 edition. Excerpt: ...FOR GOODENOUGH. These were speedily removed; but the offenders (T. Stevens and Pulling) were not discovered, though they had very nearly run into the Warden's arms with the posters in their hands. After prayers there was a more or less general shaking of hands with the hoys and the Masters and Warden when present. On Saturday the Warden and Masters dined together in Hall, and the Warden took prayers. The handshaking was on these occasions a big business, as it included the Warden and Head as a matter of course, at least some of the other Masters, and sometimes even guests. The Fifth and lower Forms went to bed at 8.45, the rest had a supper of bread and cheese and beer in Hall. The Lower Sixth sat up till io, the Upper Sixth till 10.30. Besides the three half-holidays there was a whole holiday every saint's day and holy day. Whole holidays were chiefly spent in matches and excursions. In 1862 the Wednesday after Whit-Tuesday was a saint's day, and there were thivo cricket-matches on consecutive days and Bradneld won them all. Whit-Monday and St. Andrew's Day were the great days for Old Boys, the O.B.B.s' cricket and football matches being then played. Old Boys sometimes came down on Whitsun Eve and stayed till Tuesday. Altogether it was a delightful time. Whole holidays were also given when a boy got a scholarship at the Universities, and half-holidays sometimes at the request of some distinguished visitor, and often for skating in Denning's time. Up to 1864 inclusive, the year was divided more or less definitely into halves, there being comparatively short Easter holidays, and the summer holiday beginning, as at Winchester, early in July, Commemoration Day being on July 4 or the following Thursday. In 1865 the definite division into...