A healthcare approach to mental integrity

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dc.contributor.authorWajnerman-Paz, Abel
dc.contributor.authorAboitiz, Francisco
dc.contributor.authorAlamos, Florencia
dc.contributor.authorVergara, Paulina Ramos
dc.date.accessioned2024-09-01T08:00:06Z
dc.date.available2024-09-01T08:00:06Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractThe current human rights framework can shield people from many of the risks associated with neurotechnological applications. However, it has been argued that we need either to articulate new rights or reconceptualise existing ones in order to prevent some of these risks. In this paper, we would like to address the recent discussion about whether current reconceptualisations of the right to mental integrity identify an ethical dimension that is not covered by existing moral and/or legal rights. The main challenge of these proposals is that they make mental integrity indistinguishable from autonomy. They define mental integrity in terms of the control we can have over our mental states, which seems to be part of the authenticity condition for autonomous action. Based on a fairly comprehensive notion of mental health (ie, a notion that is not limited to the mere absence of illness), we propose an alternative view according to which mental integrity can be characterised both as a positive right to (medical and non-medical) interventions that restore and sustain mental and neural function, and promote its development and a negative right protecting people from interventions that threaten or undermine these functions or their development. We will argue that this notion is dissociated from cognitive control and therefore can be adequately distinguished from autonomy.
dc.description.funderFondo Nacional de Desarrollo Cientifico y Tecnologico
dc.fuente.origenWOS
dc.identifier.doi10.1136/jme-2023-109682
dc.identifier.eissn1473-4257
dc.identifier.issn0306-6800
dc.identifier.scopusidSCOPUS_ID:85182986479
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.1136/jme-2023-109682
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.uc.cl/handle/11534/87734
dc.identifier.wosidWOS:001235844000001
dc.information.autorucNo Informado; Wajnerman Paz, Abel; S/I; 1299054
dc.issue.numero3
dc.language.isoen
dc.nota.accesoSin adjunto
dc.pagina.final948
dc.pagina.inicio941
dc.revistaJOURNAL OF MEDICAL ETHICS
dc.rightsregistro bibliográfico
dc.subjectMental Health
dc.subjectEthics
dc.subject.ods03 Good health and well-being
dc.subject.ods16 Peace and Justice Strong Institutions
dc.subject.odspa03 Salud y bienestar
dc.subject.odspa16 Paz, justicia e instituciones sólidas
dc.titleA healthcare approach to mental integrity
dc.typeartículo
dc.volumen206
sipa.codpersvinculados1299054
sipa.indexWOS
sipa.trazabilidadCarga WOS-SCOPUS;01-09-2024
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