
Neuroethics
An Introduction with Readings
Martha J. Farah(Editor)
MIT Press
Published on 23. July 2010
Book
Hardback
400 pages
978-0-262-06269-5 (ISBN)
Description
Explores the ethical, legal, and societal issues arising from brain imaging, psychopharmacology, and other new developments in neuroscience.Neuroscience increasingly allows us to explain, predict, and even control aspects of human behavior. The ethical issues that arise from these developments extend beyond the boundaries of conventional bioethics into philosophy of mind, psychology, theology, public policy, and the law. This broader set of concerns is the subject matter of neuroethics. In this book, leading neuroscientist Martha Farah introduces the reader to the key issues of neuroethics, placing them in scientific and cultural context and presenting a carefully chosen set of essays, articles, and excerpts from longer works that explore specific problems in neuroethics from the perspectives of a diverse set of authors. Included are writings by such leading scientists, philosophers, and legal scholars as Carl Elliot, Joshua Greene, Steven Hyman, Peter Kramer, and Elizabeth Phelps. Topics include the ethical dilemmas of cognitive enhancement; issues of personality, memory and identity; the ability of brain imaging to both persuade and reveal; the legal implications of neuroscience; and the many ways in which neuroscience challenges our conception of what it means to be a person.Neuroethics is an essential guide to the most intellectually challenging and socially significant issues at the interface of neuroscience and society. Farah's clear writing and well-chosen readings will be appreciated by scientist and humanist alike, and the inclusion of questions for discussion in each section makes the book suitable for classroom use.ContributorsZenab Amin, Ofek Bar-Ilan, Richard G. Boire, Philip Campbell, Turhan Canli, Jonathan Cohen, Robert Cook-Degan, Lawrence H. Diller, Carl Elliott, Martha J. Farah, Rod Flower, Kenneth R. Foster, Howard Gardner, Michael Gazzaniga, Jeremy R. Gray, Henry Greely, Joshua Greene, John Harris, Andrea S. Heberlein, Steven E. Hyman, Judy Iles, Eric Kandel, Ronald C. Kessler, Patricia King, Adam J. Kolber, Peter D. Kramer, Daniel D. Langleben, Steven Laureys, Stephen J. Morse, Nancey Murphy, Eric Parens, Sidney Perkowitz, Elizabeth A. Phelps, President's Council on Bioethics, Eric Racine, Barbara Sahakian, Laura A. Thomas, Paul M. Thompson, Stacey A. Tovino, Paul Root Wolpe
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, Mass.
United States
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MIT Press Ltd
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: From College Freshman to College Graduate Student
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1 b&w illus; 2 Illustrations
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Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
658 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-262-06269-5 (9780262062695)
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Persons
Martha J. Farah is Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Natural Sciences in
the Department of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, where she directs
the Center for Neuroscience and Society. She is the author of Visual Agnosia (second
edition, 2004) and the coeditor (with Todd E. Feinberg) of Patient-Based Approaches
to Cognitive Neuroscience (second edition, 2005), both published by the MIT
Press.
the Department of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, where she directs
the Center for Neuroscience and Society. She is the author of Visual Agnosia (second
edition, 2004) and the coeditor (with Todd E. Feinberg) of Patient-Based Approaches
to Cognitive Neuroscience (second edition, 2005), both published by the MIT
Press.
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University of Pennsylvania
Contributions
University of Pennsylvania
Professor of Biochemical PharmacologyQueen Mary's School of Medicine and Dentistry
University of British Columbia
Duke University
Harvard University
Columbia University
Georgetown University
The Hastings Center
University of Cambridge