Amphetamines,Cognitive Enhancement and their Implications for Medical Military Ethics |
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| Authors: | Arthur Saniotis Jaliya Kumaratilake |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Anthropology, Ludwik Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw, Poland;2. Biological Anthropology and Comparative Anatomy Research Unit, Adelaide Medical School, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia arthur.saniotis@adelaide.edu.au;4. Biological Anthropology and Comparative Anatomy Research Unit, Adelaide Medical School, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia |
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| Abstract: | ABSTRACT The growing area of military bio-technologies, especially the use of cogniceuticals, raises several ethical concerns for military physicians. These include the role of military physicians in prescribing amphetamines whose long-term effects are largely unknown, and the possible undermining of the ethic of “do no harm,” since amphetamines may diminish a soldier’s moral responsibility. Below, we outline some important questions relating to the ethics of amphetamines and medical military physicians. |
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| Keywords: | Biological weapons do no harm iatrogenic side-effects long term consequences |
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