Bioethical thinking of cochlear implant in the treatment of deafness

Fabio David Urbano Bucheli

Article ID: 1670
Vol 1, Issue 2, 2020
DOI: https://doi.org/10.54517/wt.v1i2.1670

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Abstract

Otolaryngologists engaged in cochlear implant surgery are very careful to require a variety of complex medical and clinical examinations in order to make a clear diagnosis and perform surgery to improve hearing and speaking. From a biomedical point of view, this is not controversial. However, in the analysis, if the personal, social, family and environmental factors of deaf people are not considered as important as pathology, the wanted results may be undermined. This reflective article highlights these situations, which are part of the bioethics view and considered to be a necessary supplement to the rehabilitation of deafness. The dilemma and conflict in bioethics are defined so as to put the pathology of deafness, the deaf and their environment in the framework of the concept of overall health and the doctors’ responsibility, then to reach the bioethics principles of Beauchamp and Childress. Its purpose is to show that cochlear implantation can be attributed to a valuable cutting-edge technology operation behavior, and the prejudices and values of this medical technology must be surpassed and understood, which directly or indirectly, positively or negatively affect the deaf.


Keywords

bioethics; deafness; cochlear implant


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