TY - JOUR
T1 - Have We Made Progress in Identifying (Surgical) Innovation?
AU - Birchley, Giles
AU - Huxtable, Richard
AU - Ives, Jonathan
AU - Blazeby, Jane
PY - 2019/6
Y1 - 2019/6
N2 - Jake Earl correctly identifies a range of ethical problems arising from medical innovation. The definition of innovation itself is, however, deeply problematic, contested, and contestable, and this is something we have grappled with in our own work on surgical innovation. This commentary explores what progress has been made in defining surgical innovation, considers the challenges that remain and how those challenges impact on Earl’s conclusions. It ends by considering a radical - though we think justifiable - departure from contemporary thinking by proposing the elimination of the term ‘innovation’.
AB - Jake Earl correctly identifies a range of ethical problems arising from medical innovation. The definition of innovation itself is, however, deeply problematic, contested, and contestable, and this is something we have grappled with in our own work on surgical innovation. This commentary explores what progress has been made in defining surgical innovation, considers the challenges that remain and how those challenges impact on Earl’s conclusions. It ends by considering a radical - though we think justifiable - departure from contemporary thinking by proposing the elimination of the term ‘innovation’.
KW - surgical innovation
KW - Ethics, Research
KW - Governance of innovation diffusion
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85067044773&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1080/15265161.2019.1602181
DO - 10.1080/15265161.2019.1602181
M3 - Comment/debate (Academic Journal)
C2 - 31135303
AN - SCOPUS:85067044773
SN - 1526-5161
VL - 19
SP - 25
EP - 27
JO - American Journal of Bioethics
JF - American Journal of Bioethics
IS - 6
ER -