Wolbring Gregor
Faculty of Medicine, Department of Community Health Science, Program in Community Rehabilitation and Disability Studies, University of Calgary, 3330 Hospital Drive NW, T2N4N1 Calgary, Alberta Canada.
Neuroethics. 2013;6(3):607-616. doi: 10.1007/s12152-011-9120-x. Epub 2011 Jun 1.
The time is near where 'therapeutic' bodily assistive devices, developed to mimic species-typical body structures in order to enable normative body functioning, will allow the wearer to outperform the species-typical body in various functions. Although such devices are developed for people that are seen to exhibit sub species-typical abilities, many 'therapeutic enhancements' might also be desired and used by people that exhibit species-typical body abilities. This paper presents the views of members of the World Federation of the Deaf on potential beyond species-typical abilities enabling therapeutic assistive devices (i.e. related to hearing). Survey respondents showed support for the development and uptake of beyond normal hearing enabling devices. The views of survey respondents as clients affect hearing-enabling professions (such as audiologist and speech pathologists). The paper analyzes what guidance code of ethics of hearing enabling professions give in regards to beyond normal hearing enabling devices. This paper suggests that people labeled impaired and the professions that serve them should more involved in the enhancement discourse.
在不久的将来，为模仿物种典型身体结构以实现正常身体功能而开发的“治疗性”身体辅助设备，将使佩戴者在各种功能上超越物种典型身体。尽管此类设备是为那些被认为表现出低于物种典型能力的人开发的，但许多“治疗性增强”也可能被具有物种典型身体能力的人所渴望和使用。本文介绍了世界聋人联合会成员对能够实现治疗性辅助设备（即与听力相关）的超越物种典型能力潜力的看法。调查受访者对开发和采用超越正常听力的设备表示支持。作为客户的调查受访者的观点会影响听力辅助专业（如听力学家和言语病理学家）。本文分析了听力辅助专业的道德指导准则对于超越正常听力的设备给出了哪些规定。本文建议，被贴上残障标签的人和为他们服务的专业人员应更多地参与到增强功能的讨论中来。
