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The ‘Magic Light’: A Discussion on Laser Ethics

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Innovations in technology and science form novel fields that, although beneficial, introduce new bio-ethical issues. In their short history, lasers have greatly influenced our everyday lives, especially in medicine. This paper focuses particularly on medical and para-medical laser ethics and their origins, and presents the complex relationships within laser ethics through a three-dimensional matrix model. The term ‘laser’ and the myth of the ‘magic light’ can be identified as landmarks for laser related ethical issues. These ethical issues are divided into five major groups: (1) media, marketing, and advertising; (2) economic outcomes; (3) user training; (4) the user-patient/client relationship; and (5) other issues. In addition, issues arising from two of the most common applications of lasers, laser eye surgery and laser tattoo removal, are discussed. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that the use of medical and para-medical lasers has so greatly influenced our lives that the scientific community must initiate an earnest discussion of medical laser ethics.

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Abbreviations

FDA:

Food and drug administration

fMRI:

Functional magnetic resonance imaging

LASIK:

Laser in situ keratomileusis

LASER:

Light amplification by stimulated emission radiation

OCT:

Optical coherence tomography

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AS would like to gratefully thank Dr. M. Sialaros, Birkeck Collage-University of London, for his productive comments on the initial manuscript and the enjoyable discussion under the ‘shadow’ of Acropolis.

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Stylianou, A., Talias, M.A. The ‘Magic Light’: A Discussion on Laser Ethics. Sci Eng Ethics 21, 979–998 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-014-9566-4

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