On not reinventing the wheel

Abstract

"The impetus to this article was the ongoing development of ethical research governance in Singapore. This has been a preoccupation of the Bioethics Advisory Committee (BAC), Singapore, since its inception in 2000.1 The BAC is, at the time of writing, actively considering the implications of new technologies for neuroscience research within an established framework of ethics governance in Singapore, and what if any consequential changes to this framework might be needed. This therefore seems an opportune moment to consider some potential ethical issues in neuroscience research. This article acknowledges and briefly describes the ethical framework that the BAC fuses, but is written independently and not as representing the BAC or its position on these issues"