Defining right and wrong in brain science : essential readings in neuroethics / Walter Glannon, editor.

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[2007], ©2007
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New York : Dana Press, [2007], ©2007.

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xviii, 405 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

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Contents

Part I: Foundational Issues -- Visions for a New Field of "Neuroethics" / William Safire -- Neuroethics for the New Millennium / Adina Roskies -- Emerging Ethical Issues in Neuroscience / Martha J. Farah -- Monitoring and Manipulating Brain Function: New Neuroscience Technologies and Their Ethical Implications / Martha J. Farah and Paul Root Wolpe -- Neuroscience and Neuroethics / Donald Kennedy -- Part II: Professional Obligation and Public Understanding -- From the "Public Understanding of Science" to Scientists' Understanding of the Public / Colin Blakemore -- Ethical Issues in Taking Neuroscience Research from Bench to Bedside / Alan I. Leshner -- Models for the Neuroethical Debate in the Community / John Timpane -- Part III: Neuroimaging -- Neuroethics in a New Era of Neuroimaging / Judy Illes -- Ethical and Practical Considerations in Managing Incidental Findings in Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging / Judy Illes, John E. Desmond, Lynn F. Huang, Thomas A Raffin, and Scott W. Atlas -- Legal and Ethical Issues in Neuroimaging Research: Human Subjects Protection, Medical Privacy, and the Public Communication of Research Results / Jennifer Kulynych -- Incidental Findings on Research Functional MR Images: Should We Look? / Alex Mamourian -- Imaging or Imagining? A Neuroethics Challenge Informed by Genetics / Judy Illes and Eric Racine -- Brains, Genes, and the Making of the Self / Lynette Reid and Francoise Baylis -- Part IV: Free Will, Moral Reasoning, and Responsibility -- The Neural Basis of Social Behavior: Ethical Implications / Antonio Damasio -- Neuroscience: Reflections on the -- My Brain Made Me Do It / Michael Gazzaniga -- New Neuroscience, Old Problems: Legal Implications of Brain Science / Stephen J.Morse -- Moral Cognition and Its Neural Constituents / W. D. Casebeer -- From Neural "Is" to Moral "Ought": What Are the Moral Implications of Neuroscientific Moral Psychology?/ J. D. Greene -- Part V: Psychopharmacology -- Better Memories? The Promise and Perils of Pharmacological Intervention / President's Council of Bioethics (Staff Working Paper) -- Psychopharmacology and Memory / Walter Glannon -- Shall We Enhance? A Debate/ Arthur Caplan and Paul McHugh -- Neurocognitive Enhancement: What Can We Do and What Should We Do? / Martha J. Farah, Judy Illes, Robert Cook-Deegan, Howard Gardner, Eric Kandel, Patricia King, Erik Parens, Barbara Shakian, and Paul Root Wolpe -- The Promise and Predicament of Cosmetic Neurology / Anjan Chatterjee -- Part VI. Brain Injury and Brain Death -- Brain Death in an Age of Heroic Medicine / Guy McKhann -- Constructing an Ethical Stereotaxy for Severe Brain Injury: Balancing Risks, Benefits, and Access / Joseph J. Fins -- Hope for "Comatose" Patients / N.D. Schiff and J. J. Fins -- Rethinking Disorders of Consciousness: New Research and Its Implications / Joseph J. Fins -- Ethics in a Neurocentric World / Steven Rose.

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-381) and index.

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  • 9781932594256
  • 1932594256