Sara Goering
Biographic Data
| ID | 1490108 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sara Goering |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sara |
| FAMILY NAME | Goering |
| SIGNATURE | GOERING S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Washington |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1882-3764 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Research participants as ‘pioneers’? Exploring how neurotechnology research is adapting the rhetoric of scientific risk-taking, exploration and trailblazing
The theme of pioneers charting new frontiers has long been a staple of scientific and technological discourse in the United States. Scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs perceived as doing groundbreaking work are lauded as pioneers in their fields. In recent years, the application of the pioneer label has expanded to include research participants in clinical trials for neurotechnologies such as Neuralink or other brain-computer interface (BCI) …
Brain Pioneers and Moral Entanglement: An Argument for Post‐trial Responsibilities in Neural‐Device Trials
We argue that in implanted neurotechnology research, participants and researchers experience what Henry Richardson has called “moral entanglement.” Participants partially entrust researchers with access to their brains and thus to information that would otherwise be private, leading to created intimacies and special obligations of beneficence for researchers and research funding agencies. One of these obligations, we argue, is about continued acc…
From an ethics ‘side dish’ to ‘your modus operandi’: Neurotechnology researcher perspectives on the impacts of a decade of embedded ethics collaboration
In this paper, we discuss ethics integration and consider questions about evaluating the success of such efforts by reporting qualitative data from an interview study with researchers who were part of a ten-year, multi-institutional NSF-funded neural engineering research center with a multimodal ethics integration effort. Our analysis of these data highlights three key themes from scientific collaborators about the impact of ethics integration: (…
Minding Rights: Mapping Ethical and Legal Foundations of ‘Neurorights’
The rise of neurotechnologies, especially in combination with artificial intelligence (AI)-based methods for brain data analytics, has given rise to concerns around the protection of mental privacy, mental integrity and cognitive liberty – often framed as “neurorights” in ethical, legal, and policy discussions. Several states are now looking at including neurorights into their constitutional legal frameworks, and international institutions and or…
Can I Hold That Thought for You? Dementia and Shared Relational Agency
Agency is talked about by many as something that people living with dementia lose, once they've lost much else—autonomy, identity, and privacy, among other things. While the language of loss may capture some of what transpires in dementia, it can obscure how people living with dementia and their loved ones share agency through sharing capacities for memory, language, and decision‐making. We suggest that one consequence of adopting a framework of …
Resisting Transhumanist Fantasies
Trading Vulnerabilities: Living with Parkinson’s Disease before and after Deep Brain Stimulation
Implanted medical devices—for example, cardiac defibrillators, deep brain stimulators, and insulin pumps—offer users the possibility of regaining some control over an increasingly unruly body, the opportunity to become part “cyborg” in service of addressing pressing health needs. We recognize the value and effectiveness of such devices, but call attention to what may be less clear to potential users—that their vulnerabilities may not entirely dis…
Neurotechnology ethics and relational agency
Novel neurotechnologies, like deep brain stimulation and brain-computer interface, offer great hope for treating, curing, and preventing disease, but raise important questions about effects these devices may have on human identity, authenticity, and autonomy. After briefly assessing recent narrative work in these areas, we show that agency is a phenomenon key to all three goods and highlight the ways in which neural devices can help to draw atten…
Introduction to the Special Section: Feminist Approaches to Neurotechnologies
Disability Studies Curriculum Transformation: Building a Program and Cultivating a Community
The authors facilitated and participated in a curriculum transformation seminar at the University of Washington that contributed to the growth of the Disability Studies Program. The project introduced disability studies content and pedagogy to a group of faculty who received commitments that year from their departments, including dance, anthropology, social work, philosophy, and Slavic studies, to teach new courses or revise existing ones. The se…
Rethinking disability: The social model of disability and chronic disease
Engineering the Brain: Ethical Issues and the Introduction of Neural Devices
Neural engineering technologies such as implanted deep brain stimulators and brain‐computer interfaces represent exciting and potentially transformative tools for improving human health and well‐being. Yet their current use and future prospects raise a variety of ethical and philosophical concerns. Devices that alter brain function invite us to think deeply about a range of ethical concerns—identity, normality, authority, responsibility, privacy,…
A Test of the Agency Hypothesis in Women’s Cosmetic Surgery Usage
Navigating Growth Attenuation in Children with Profound Disabilities: Children's Interests, Family Decision‐Making, and Community Concerns
A twenty‐person working group convened to discuss the ethical and policy considerations of the controversial intervention called “growth attenuation,” and if possible to develop practical guidance for health professionals. A consensus proved elusive, but most of the members did reach a compromise
Choosing Our Friends: Moral Partiality and the Value of Diversity
A Test of the Agency Hypothesis in Women’s Cosmetic Surgery Usage
Neurotechnology ethics and relational agency
Novel neurotechnologies, like deep brain stimulation and brain-computer interface, offer great hope for treating, curing, and preventing disease, but raise important questions about effects these devices may have on human identity, authenticity, and autonomy. After briefly assessing recent narrative work in these areas, we show that agency is a phenomenon key to all three goods and highlight the ways in which neural devices can help to draw atten…
Choosing Our Friends: Moral Partiality and the Value of Diversity
Navigating Growth Attenuation in Children with Profound Disabilities: Children's Interests, Family Decision‐Making, and Community Concerns
A twenty‐person working group convened to discuss the ethical and policy considerations of the controversial intervention called “growth attenuation,” and if possible to develop practical guidance for health professionals. A consensus proved elusive, but most of the members did reach a compromise
A Test of the Agency Hypothesis in Women’s Cosmetic Surgery Usage
Rethinking disability: The social model of disability and chronic disease
Engineering the Brain: Ethical Issues and the Introduction of Neural Devices
Neural engineering technologies such as implanted deep brain stimulators and brain‐computer interfaces represent exciting and potentially transformative tools for improving human health and well‐being. Yet their current use and future prospects raise a variety of ethical and philosophical concerns. Devices that alter brain function invite us to think deeply about a range of ethical concerns—identity, normality, authority, responsibility, privacy,…
Disability Studies Curriculum Transformation: Building a Program and Cultivating a Community
The authors facilitated and participated in a curriculum transformation seminar at the University of Washington that contributed to the growth of the Disability Studies Program. The project introduced disability studies content and pedagogy to a group of faculty who received commitments that year from their departments, including dance, anthropology, social work, philosophy, and Slavic studies, to teach new courses or revise existing ones. The se…
Introduction to the Special Section: Feminist Approaches to Neurotechnologies
Trading Vulnerabilities: Living with Parkinson’s Disease before and after Deep Brain Stimulation
Implanted medical devices—for example, cardiac defibrillators, deep brain stimulators, and insulin pumps—offer users the possibility of regaining some control over an increasingly unruly body, the opportunity to become part “cyborg” in service of addressing pressing health needs. We recognize the value and effectiveness of such devices, but call attention to what may be less clear to potential users—that their vulnerabilities may not entirely dis…
Neurotechnology ethics and relational agency
Novel neurotechnologies, like deep brain stimulation and brain-computer interface, offer great hope for treating, curing, and preventing disease, but raise important questions about effects these devices may have on human identity, authenticity, and autonomy. After briefly assessing recent narrative work in these areas, we show that agency is a phenomenon key to all three goods and highlight the ways in which neural devices can help to draw atten…
Resisting Transhumanist Fantasies
Minding Rights: Mapping Ethical and Legal Foundations of ‘Neurorights’
The rise of neurotechnologies, especially in combination with artificial intelligence (AI)-based methods for brain data analytics, has given rise to concerns around the protection of mental privacy, mental integrity and cognitive liberty – often framed as “neurorights” in ethical, legal, and policy discussions. Several states are now looking at including neurorights into their constitutional legal frameworks, and international institutions and or…
Can I Hold That Thought for You? Dementia and Shared Relational Agency
Agency is talked about by many as something that people living with dementia lose, once they've lost much else—autonomy, identity, and privacy, among other things. While the language of loss may capture some of what transpires in dementia, it can obscure how people living with dementia and their loved ones share agency through sharing capacities for memory, language, and decision‐making. We suggest that one consequence of adopting a framework of …
Brain Pioneers and Moral Entanglement: An Argument for Post‐trial Responsibilities in Neural‐Device Trials
We argue that in implanted neurotechnology research, participants and researchers experience what Henry Richardson has called “moral entanglement.” Participants partially entrust researchers with access to their brains and thus to information that would otherwise be private, leading to created intimacies and special obligations of beneficence for researchers and research funding agencies. One of these obligations, we argue, is about continued acc…
From an ethics ‘side dish’ to ‘your modus operandi’: Neurotechnology researcher perspectives on the impacts of a decade of embedded ethics collaboration
In this paper, we discuss ethics integration and consider questions about evaluating the success of such efforts by reporting qualitative data from an interview study with researchers who were part of a ten-year, multi-institutional NSF-funded neural engineering research center with a multimodal ethics integration effort. Our analysis of these data highlights three key themes from scientific collaborators about the impact of ethics integration: (…
Research participants as ‘pioneers’? Exploring how neurotechnology research is adapting the rhetoric of scientific risk-taking, exploration and trailblazing
The theme of pioneers charting new frontiers has long been a staple of scientific and technological discourse in the United States. Scientists, engineers and entrepreneurs perceived as doing groundbreaking work are lauded as pioneers in their fields. In recent years, the application of the pioneer label has expanded to include research participants in clinical trials for neurotechnologies such as Neuralink or other brain-computer interface (BCI) …
Political science (9 works) · Psychology (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations (6 works) · Engineering (5 works) · Autonomy (4 works) · Engineering ethics (4 works)