bio explanations for psych disorders = reductionist

• what does another ethical issue concern?

  use of neuroimaging to predict onset of psychiatric disorder
• what is limited in the scans?

  reliability
• what is the possible benefit of screening need to be?

  carefully weighed out
• what does the possible benefit of screening need to be weighed up against?

  possible of harm & burden of knowledge & possible discrimination cause by being an at risk patient
• what removes personal responsibility?

  assumption mental disorders are merely brain diseases
• what kind of concept is this?

  reductionist
• what claims does this reductionist concept make?

  psychological disorders are caused by chemical imbalances
• what is this a simplified explanation on?

  complexity of human behaviour & emotion
• what is unethical?

  reducing our feelings & reactions to robot-like behaviour as it ignores factors in everyday environment
• what factors does this reductionist explanation ignore?

  childhood experiences

  influence & behaviour of friends & media
• what are such simplified explanations?

  inadequate explanations on complexity of mental disorders
• what are simplified explanations more likely to result in?

  patient being merely symptomatically treated