Editing Prosthesis (section)

=== Ethical concerns ===

There are also many ethical concerns about how the prosthetics are made and produced. A wide range of ethical issues arise in connection with experiments and clinical usage of sensory prostheses: animal experimentation; informed consent, for instance, in patients with a locked-in syndrome that may be alleviated with a sensory prosthesis; unrealistic expectations of research subjects testing new devices.<ref>{{Citation |last=Hansson |first=Sven Ove |title=Ethical Implications of Sensory Prostheses |date=2015 |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4707-4_46 |work=Handbook of Neuroethics |pages=785–797 |editor-last=Clausen |editor-first=Jens |access-date=2023-11-27 |place=Dordrecht |publisher=Springer Netherlands |language=en |doi=10.1007/978-94-007-4707-4_46 |isbn=978-94-007-4707-4 |editor2-last=Levy |editor2-first=Neil|url-access=subscription }}</ref> How prosthetics come to be and testing of the usability of the device is a major concern in the medical world. Although many positives come when a new prosthetic design is announced, how the device got to where it is leads to some questioning the ethics of prosthetics.