Question

Choose three biological psychiatry treatments (medications, types of shock treatment, brain surgery, for example) from the 20th century, put them in context, and explain any ethical dilemmas that they raised

Answer 1

Ethical issue associated with deep brain stimulation

Deep brain stimulation or DBS is proved to be cure many neurological condition like Parkinson disease.DBS is a surgical technique that involve the use of electrode to provide electrical pulse to the patient. Dilemma involve with this method is the introduction of electrode in the brain can cause the infection and damage to the brain.

Dilemma associated with ECT

Electroconvulsive therapy is proved to be a effective therapy against depression. But the dilemma include that this therapy is associated with muscle pain , nausea, development of amnesia.

Ethical issue associated with medication

Now a days personalized medicine are in research for their high benefits associated with them but dilemma associated with then that these medicine are based on specific genotype but ethical issue associated with it include it can cause high risk because it is based on specific genotype.