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The ethical brain / Michael S. Gazzaniga.

By: Publication details: New York : Dana Press, c2005.Description: xix, 201 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 1932594019 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 174.2/928233 22
LOC classification:
  • QP360.5 .G393 2005
Online resources:
Contents:
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.

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.

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