Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-5864
Authors: Münch, Nikolai
Mahdiani, Hamideh
Lieb, Klaus
Paul, Norbert W.
Title: Resilience beyond reductionism : ethical and social dimensions of an emerging concept in the neurosciences
Online publication date: 19-May-2021
Year of first publication: 2021
Language: english
Abstract: Since a number of years, popular and scientific interest in resilience is rapidly increasing. More recently, also neuroscientific research in resilience and the associated neurobiological findings is gaining more attention. Some of these neuroscientific findings might open up new measures to foster personal resilience, ranging from magnetic stimulation to pharmaceutical interventions and awareness-based techniques. Therefore, bioethics should also take a closer look at resilience and resilience research, which are today philosophically under-theorized. In this paper, we analyze different conceptualizations of resilience and argue that especially one-sided understandings of resilience which dismiss social and cultural contexts of personal resilience do pose social and ethical problems. On a social level such unbalanced views on resilience could hide and thereby stabilize structural social injustices, and on an individual level it might even lead to an aggravation of stress-related mental health problems by overexerting the individual. Furthermore, some forms of fostering resilience could be a latent form of human enhancement and trigger similar criticisms.
DDC: 610 Medizin
610 Medical sciences
Institution: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Department: FB 04 Medizin
Place: Mainz
ROR: https://ror.org/023b0x485
DOI: http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-5864
Version: Published version
Publication type: Zeitschriftenaufsatz
License: CC BY
Information on rights of use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
Journal: Medicine, health care and philosophy
24
Pages or article number: 55
63
Publisher: Springer Science + Business Media B.V.
Publisher place: Dordrecht u.a.
Issue date: 2021
ISSN: 1572-8633
Publisher URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11019-020-09981-0
Publisher DOI: 10.1007/s11019-020-09981-0
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