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.