AUTHOR=Specker Sullivan Laura 

TITLE=Empowering Skepticism: Neuroethics Engagement with Tibetan Buddhist Monastics

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Communication

VOLUME=6

YEAR=2021

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/communication/articles/10.3389/fcomm.2021.777803

DOI=10.3389/fcomm.2021.777803

ISSN=2297-900X

ABSTRACT=<p>Neuroethics has been incorporated into neuroscience training through the Science for Monks program since 2016. In this article, I describe this in-progress effort and I consider how the program has changed since this first year to develop into a pilot program in community-engaged participatory research with the monastic community. The current goals of the project are to train the monastics in social science research skills as a means of empowering them to harness their deep knowledge of ethics and to bring it to bear on ethical challenges in neuroscience, neurology, and neurotechnology.</p>