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The ethical brain /

Gazzaniga, Michael S.

The ethical brain / Michael S. Gazzaniga. - New York : Dana Press, c2005. - xix, 201 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-194).

PART I: LIFESPAN NEUROETHICS: 1. Conferring Moral Status on an Embryo -- 2. The Aging Brain. PART II: BRAIN ENHANCEMENT: 3. Better Brains Through Genes -- 4. Training the Brain -- 5. Shaping the Smart Brain with Drugs. PART III: FREE WILL, PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY AND THE LAW: 6. My Brain Made Me Do It -- 7. Anti-social Thoughts and the Right to Privacy -- 8. The Brain Produces a Poor Autobiography. PART IV: MORAL BELIEFS AND THE CONCEPT OF UNIVERSAL ETHICS: 9. The Believing Brain -- 10. Toward a Universal Ethics.

1932594019 (hardcover : alk. paper)

2004026860


Cognitive neuroscience--Moral and ethical aspects.

QP360.5 / .G393 2005

174.2/928233

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