Eran Klein
Biographic Data
| ID | 3602133 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eran Klein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eran |
| FAMILY NAME | Klein |
| SIGNATURE | KLEIN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oregon Health & Science University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0132-5777 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| 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) …
Cognitive Enhancement as Transformative Experience: The Challenge of Wrapping One’s Mind Around Enhanced Cognition via Neurostimulation
In this paper, the authors explore the question of whether cognitive enhancement via direct neurostimulation, such as through deep brain stimulation, could be reasonably characterized as a form of transformative experience. This question is inspired by a qualitative study being conducted with people at risk of developing dementia and in intimate relationships with people living with dementia (PLWD). They apply L.A. Paul’s work on transformative e…
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: (…
What does it mean to call a medical device invasive
Medical devices are often referred to as being invasive or non-invasive. Though invasiveness is relevant, and central, to how devices are understood and regarded in medicine and bioethics, a consensus concept or definition of invasiveness is lacking. To begin to address this problem, this essay explores four possible descriptive meanings of invasiveness: how devices are introduced to the body, where they are located in the body, whether they are …
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 …
Relational autonomy and the clinical relationship in dementia care
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…
Citizen Neuroscience: Brain–Computer Interface Researcher Perspectives on Do-It-Yourself Brain Research
“Who Will I Be?”: Relational Identity, Living with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, and Future-Oriented Decisionmaking
Patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) face many difficult, timing-sensitive decisions over the course of their illness, weighing present versus future harms and benefits. Supplemented by interviews with people with ALS, we argue for a relational approach to understanding these decisions and their effects on identity. We highlight two critical aspects of the patient–caregiver relationship: (1) the extent to which each may rely on the o…
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,…
The Hard Case of Palliative Sedation
An examination of terminal sedation as a palliative care tool and the Catholic Church's position on when it should and should not be used. Virtual Mentor is a monthly bioethics journal published by the American Medical Association
Toward a Definition of Expertise in Medicine
The theme editor introduces a special issue focusing on the topic of expertise as it applies to the practice of medicine. Virtual Mentor is a monthly bioethics journal published by the American Medical Association
Clinical Experts as Moral Agents
Pellegrino, ED. The anatomy of clinical judgments: Some notes on right reason and right action. In: Engelhardt HT Jr, Spicker SF, and Towers B, eds. Clinical Judgment: A Critical Appraisal. Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel Publishing Company; 1979:169-194
Getting Agreement: How Bioethics Got Started
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…
Getting Agreement: How Bioethics Got Started
Toward a Definition of Expertise in Medicine
The theme editor introduces a special issue focusing on the topic of expertise as it applies to the practice of medicine. Virtual Mentor is a monthly bioethics journal published by the American Medical Association
Clinical Experts as Moral Agents
Pellegrino, ED. The anatomy of clinical judgments: Some notes on right reason and right action. In: Engelhardt HT Jr, Spicker SF, and Towers B, eds. Clinical Judgment: A Critical Appraisal. Dordrecht, Holland: D. Reidel Publishing Company; 1979:169-194
The Hard Case of Palliative Sedation
An examination of terminal sedation as a palliative care tool and the Catholic Church's position on when it should and should not be used. Virtual Mentor is a monthly bioethics journal published by the American Medical Association
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,…
Citizen Neuroscience: Brain–Computer Interface Researcher Perspectives on Do-It-Yourself Brain Research
“Who Will I Be?”: Relational Identity, Living with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, and Future-Oriented Decisionmaking
Patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) face many difficult, timing-sensitive decisions over the course of their illness, weighing present versus future harms and benefits. Supplemented by interviews with people with ALS, we argue for a relational approach to understanding these decisions and their effects on identity. We highlight two critical aspects of the patient–caregiver relationship: (1) the extent to which each may rely on the o…
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…
Relational autonomy and the clinical relationship in dementia care
What does it mean to call a medical device invasive
Medical devices are often referred to as being invasive or non-invasive. Though invasiveness is relevant, and central, to how devices are understood and regarded in medicine and bioethics, a consensus concept or definition of invasiveness is lacking. To begin to address this problem, this essay explores four possible descriptive meanings of invasiveness: how devices are introduced to the body, where they are located in the body, whether they are …
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 …
Cognitive Enhancement as Transformative Experience: The Challenge of Wrapping One’s Mind Around Enhanced Cognition via Neurostimulation
In this paper, the authors explore the question of whether cognitive enhancement via direct neurostimulation, such as through deep brain stimulation, could be reasonably characterized as a form of transformative experience. This question is inspired by a qualitative study being conducted with people at risk of developing dementia and in intimate relationships with people living with dementia (PLWD). They apply L.A. Paul’s work on transformative e…
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) …
Medicine (10 works) · Psychology (10 works) · Political science (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Ethics in medical practice (5 works) · Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations (5 works)