The New Brain Sciences- perils and prospects
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Förlagsfakta
- ISBN
- 0521537142
- Titel
- The New Brain Sciences [Elektronisk resurs] : Perils and Prospects
- Författare
- Rees, David A. - Rose, Steven P. R. 1938-
- Förlag
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
- Utgivningsår
- 2004
- Språk
- English
- Baksidestext
- The last twenty years have seen huge advances in our understanding of how the brain works. Researchers are now trying to understand the nature of consciousness itself. This collection represents an accessible attempt to expose and question research boundaries of what is ethically, socially and legally acceptable in neuroscience research.
Do we ever really act? / Mary Midgley -- The definition of human nature / Merlin W. Donald -- Consciousness and the limits of neurobiology / Hilary Rose -- Mind metaphors, neurosciences and ethics / Regine Kollek -- Genetic and generic determinism : a new threat to free will? / Peter Lipton -- Human action, neuroscience and the law / Alexander McCall Smith -- Responsibility and the law / Stephen Sedley -- Programmed or licensed to kill? : the new biology of femicide / Lorraine Radford -- Genes, responsibility and the law / Patrick Bateson -- The neurosciences : the danger that we will think that we have understood it all / Yadin Dudai -- On dissecting the genetic basis of behaviour and intelligence / Angus Clarke -- Prospects and perils of stem cell repair of the central nervous system : a brief guide to current science / Helen Hodges, Iris Reuter and Helen Pilcher -- The use of human embryonic stem cells for research : an ethical evaluation / Guido de Wert -- The Prozac story / John Cornwell -- Psychopharmacology at the interface between the market and the new biology / David Healy -- Education in the age of Ritalin / Paul Cooper.
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