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    Intervening in the brain: Changing psyche and society.Dirk Hartmann, Gerard Boer, Jörg Fegert, Thorsten Galert, Reinhard Merkel, Bart Nuttin & Steffen Rosahl - 2007 - Springer.
    In recent years, neuroscience has been a particularly prolific discipline stimulating many innovative treatment approaches in medicine. However, when it comes to the brain, new techniques of intervention do not always meet with a positive public response, in spite of promising therapeutic benefits. The reason for this caution clearly is the brain’s special importance as “organ of the mind”. As such it is widely held to be the origin of mankind’s unique position among living beings. Likewise, on the level of (...)
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  2. Autonomy and authenticity of enhanced personality traits.Jan Christoph Bublitz & Reinhard Merkel - 2009 - Bioethics 23 (6):360-374.
    There is concern that the use of neuroenhancements to alter character traits undermines consumer's authenticity. But the meaning, scope and value of authenticity remain vague. However, the majority of contemporary autonomy accounts ground individual autonomy on a notion of authenticity. So if neuroenhancements diminish an agent's authenticity, they may undermine his autonomy. This paper clarifies the relation between autonomy, authenticity and possible threats by neuroenhancements. We present six neuroenhancement scenarios and analyse how autonomy accounts evaluate them. Some cases are considered (...)
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    After Cologne: male circumcision and the law. Parental right, religious liberty or criminal assault?Reinhard Merkel & Holm Putzke - 2013 - Journal of Medical Ethics 39 (7):444-449.
    Non-therapeutic circumcision violates boys’ right to bodily integrity as well as to self-determination. There is neither any verifiable medical advantage connected with the intervention nor is it painless nor without significant risks. Possible negative consequences for the psychosexual development of circumcised boys (due to substantial loss of highly erogenous tissue) have not yet been sufficiently explored, but appear to ensue in a significant number of cases. According to standard legal criteria, these considerations would normally entail that the operation be deemed (...)
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  4. Crimes Against Minds: On Mental Manipulations, Harms and a Human Right to Mental Self-Determination. [REVIEW]Jan Christoph Bublitz & Reinhard Merkel - 2014 - Criminal Law and Philosophy 8 (1):51-77.
    The neurosciences not only challenge assumptions about the mind’s place in the natural world but also urge us to reconsider its role in the normative world. Based on mind-brain dualism, the law affords only one-sided protection: it systematically protects bodies and brains, but only fragmentarily minds and mental states. The fundamental question, in what ways people may legitimately change mental states of others, is largely unexplored in legal thinking. With novel technologies to both intervene into minds and detect mental activity, (...)
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    Killing or letting die? Proposal of a (somewhat) new answer to a perennial question.Reinhard Merkel - 2016 - Journal of Medical Ethics 42 (6):353-360.
    There is as yet no widely agreed-upon solution to the standard textbook problem whether actively shutting off a life-sustaining medical device, e.g. a respirator, and thus bringing about a patient9s death amounts to active killing or just to an omission of further treatment. Apart from a range of astutely contrived case examples and respective particular solutions proposed in the literature, there seems to be no consensus on the normative principles such solutions should be grounded in, not even on the need (...)
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    Not Compassion Alone: On Euthanasia and Ethics.Marion Dönhoff & Reinhard Merkel - 1995 - Hastings Center Report 25 (7):44-50.
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    Das „Strudlhof“-Symposion: Konsensus-Statement: Bedingungen spezieller pränataler genetischer Diagnostik.Reinhard Merkel - 2007 - Ethik in der Medizin 19 (3):221-225.
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    Innovations in neuroscience: prospects and perils.Reinhard Merkel & Thorsten Galert - 2006 - Poiesis and Praxis 4 (2):77-80.
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    Kommentar II.Reinhard Merkel - 2006 - Ethik in der Medizin 18 (3):256-260.
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  10. The Law of the Nuremberg Trial.Reinhard Merkel - 2008 - In Guénaël Mettraux (ed.), Perspectives on the Nuremberg Trial. Oxford University Press.
     
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  11. Willensfreiheit und rechtliche Schuld.Reinhard Merkel - 2009 - Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 12 (5):575-576.
     
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    "Zum ewigen Frieden": Grundlagen, Aktualität und Aussichten einer Idee von Immanuel Kant.Reinhard Merkel & Roland Wittmann - 1996
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    Zur Frage der Verbindlichkeit von Patientenverfügungen: Eine notwendige Ergänzung der bisher in Deutschland geläufigen Argumente. [REVIEW]Reinhard Merkel - 2004 - Ethik in der Medizin 16 (3):298-307.
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