Dr. Fabrice Jotterand is the Director of the Center for Ethics in Health Care at Oregon Health and Science University in Portland, Oregon, USA where he holds the Cornelia Hayes Stevens Endowed Chair. He is also Senior Researcher at the Institute for Biomedical Ethics in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Basel, Switzerland. His scholarship and research interests focus on issues including neuroethics, the ethics of Artificial Intelligence in health care, ethical issues in psychiatry and mental health, the use of neurotechnologies in psychiatry, the philosophy of medicine, medical professionalism, neurotechnologies and human identity, and moral/political philosophy. He has published more than 90 articles and book chapters as well as reviews in leading academic journals and has published 9 books. He is the founding co-editor of the book series Advances in Neuroethics (Springer).

He is the author of a monograph entitled The Unfit Brain and the Limits of Moral Bioenhancement (Palgrave Macmillan, April 2022) which focuses on the ethical and social implications of the potential use of neurotechnologies in psychiatry to alter brain functions to address so-called “moral pathologies” (antisocial, aggressive, and harmful behavior; psychopathic traits).

He is currently working on another monograph tentatively titled Medicine and the Human Project in a Technological Age (under contract, Anthem). This project continues his exploration regarding professional identity formation in medicine started in his previous book as physicians are often described, and reduced, to technicians, to service providers, or even to “vending machines”. It examines the current anthropological frameworks that shape our understandings of what it means to be human in a technocratic society and their implications for identity formation of physicians as human beings and professionals.

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