Brain, Body, and Mind

Neuroethics with a Human Face
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-973409-2
Verlag: OUP US

Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 570 g

This book is a discussion of the most timely and contentious issues in the two branches of neuroethics: the neuroscience of ethics; and the ethics of neuroscience. Drawing upon recent work in psychiatry, neurology, and neurosurgery, it develops a phenomenologically inspired theory of neuroscience to explain the brain-mind relation. The idea that the mind is shaped not just by the brain but also by the body and how the human subject interacts with the environment has significant implications for free will, moral responsibility, and moral justification of actions. It also provides a better understanding of how different interventions in the brain can benefit or harm us. In addition, the book discusses brain imaging techniques to diagnose altered states of consciousness, deep-brain stimulation to treat neuropsychiatric disorders, and restorative neurosurgery for neurodegenerative diseases. It examines the medical and ethical trade-offs of these interventions in the brain when they produce both positive and negative physical and psychological effects, and how these trade-offs shape decisions by physicians and patients about whether to provide and undergo them.

Zielgruppe

Philosophers and clinical neuroscientists (neurologists, psychiatrists, and neurosurgeons), psychologists, legal theorists, cognitive neuroscientists, and anthropologists. These include researchers, university and college teachers, graduate and undergraduate students, and general readers with an interest in neuroscience.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Glannon, Walter

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Biowissenschaften Neurobiologie, Verhaltensbiologie
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Klinische und Innere Medizin Neurologie, Klinische Neurowissenschaft
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizinische Fachgebiete Psychiatrie, Sozialpsychiatrie, Suchttherapie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Biologische Psychologie, Neuropsychologie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Neurowissenschaften, Kognitionswissenschaft
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Chirurgie Neurochirurgie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Acknowledgments

- Introduction

- Chapter 1: Our Brains Are Not Us

- Chapter 2: Neuroscience, Free Will, and Moral Responsibility

- Chapter 3: What Neuroscience Can (and Cannot) Tell Us about Criminal Responsibility

- Chapter 4: Neuroscience and Moral Reasoning

- Chapter 5: Cognitive Enhancement

- Chapter 6: Brain Injury and Survival

- Chapter 7: Stimulating Brains, Altering Minds

- Chapter 8: Regenerating the Brain

- Notes

- References

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Walter Glannon, Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Calgary and author of BIOETHICS AND THE BRAIN OUP 2006.