ReviewThe American journal of bioethics : AJOB2013
If I could just stop loving you: anti-love biotechnology and the ethics of a chemical breakup.
Review in The American journal of bioethics : AJOB, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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9 citing papers in PubMed, 128 citations in OpenAlex.
- The ethics of anti-love drugs qua precommitment strategy.Theoretical medicine and bioethics · 2025Article
- Refuting Six Misconceptions about Romantic Love.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- The shallow of your smile: the ethics of expressive vocal deep-fakes.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Expanding the Romantic Circle.Ethical theory and moral practice : an international forum · 2020Article
- Ethnopharmacology of Love.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2018Review
- Addicted to love: What is love addiction and when should it be treated?Philosophy, psychiatry, & psychology : PPP · 2017Article
- The medicalization of love.Cambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics : CQ : the international journal of healthcare ethics committees · 2015Article
- When is diminishment a form of enhancement? Rethinking the enhancement debate in biomedical ethics.Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2014Article
- Brave New Love: The Threat of High-Tech "Conversion" Therapy and the Bio-Oppression of Sexual Minorities.AJOB neuroscience · 2014Article
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Abstract
"Love hurts"-as the saying goes-and a certain amount of pain and difficulty in intimate relationships is unavoidable. Sometimes it may even be beneficial, since adversity can lead to personal growth, self-discovery, and a range of other components of a life well-lived. But other times, love can be downright dangerous. It may bind a spouse to her domestic abuser, draw an unscrupulous adult toward sexual involvement with a child, put someone under the insidious spell of a cult leader, and even inspire jealousy-fueled homicide. How might these perilous devotions be diminished? The ancients thought that treatments such as phlebotomy, exercise, or bloodletting could "cure" an individual of love. But modern neuroscience and emerging developments in psychopharmacology open up a range of possible interventions that might actually work. These developments raise profound moral questions about the potential uses-and misuses-of such anti-love biotechnology. In this article, we describe a number of prospective love-diminishing interventions, and offer a preliminary ethical framework for dealing with them responsibly should they arise.
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