What does it mean to call a medical device invasive?

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Medical devices are often referred to as being invasive or non-invasive. Though invasiveness is relevant, and central, to how devices are understood and regarded in medicine and bioethics, a consensus concept or definition of invasiveness is lacking. To begin to address this problem, this essay explores four possible descriptive meanings of invasiveness: how devices are introduced to the body, where they are located in the body, whether they are foreign to the body, and how they change the body. An argument is offered that invasiveness is not purely descriptive, but implicates normative concepts of danger, intrusion, and disruption. In light of this, a proposal is offered for how to understand use of the concept of invasiveness in discussions of medical devices.

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Eran Klein:

ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0132-5777

kleine@ohsu.edu

Journal

Journal ID (nlm-ta): Med Health Care Philos

Journal ID (iso-abbrev): Med Health Care Philos

Title: Medicine, Health Care, and Philosophy

Publisher: Springer Netherlands (Dordrecht )

ISSN (Print): 1386-7423

ISSN (Electronic): 1572-8633

Publication date (Electronic): 3 May 2023

Publication date PMC-release: 3 May 2023

Publication date (Print): 2023

Volume: 26

Issue: 3

Pages: 325-334

Affiliations

[1 ]GRID grid.5288.7, ISNI 0000 0000 9758 5690, Department of Neurology, , Oregon Health & Science University, ; 3181 SW Sam Jackson Park Road, L226, Portland, OR 97239-3098 United States of America

[2 ]GRID grid.34477.33, ISNI 0000000122986657, Department of Philosophy, , University of Washington, ; Washington, United States of America

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Eran Klein http://orcid.org/0000-0002-0132-5777

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Publisher ID: 10147

DOI: 10.1007/s11019-023-10147-x

PMC ID: 10425495

PubMed ID: 37131099

SO-VID: 6bee4108-c098-439a-8a23-a690b2cd5152

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Date accepted : 21 March 2023

Funding

Funded by: FundRef http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/100000025, National Institute of Mental Health;

Award ID: RF1MH117800-01

Award Recipient : Eran Klein

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ScienceOpen disciplines: Medicine

Keywords: medical device,invasiveness,normative,bioethics,technology

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