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AuthorGazzaniga, Michael S.TitleThe ethical brain / Michael S. Gazzaniga.PublishedNew York : Dana Press, c2005.FormatBook
Descriptionxix, 201 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

LinkTable of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip053/2004026860.html
Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0617/2004026860-b.html
Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0617/2004026860-d.html
NotesIncludes bibliographical references (p. 179-194).
Contentspt. 1. Life-span neuroethics. -- Conferring moral status on an embryo -- The aging brain -- pt. 2. Brain enhancement. -- Better brains through genes -- Training the brain -- Shaping the smart brain with drugs -- pt. 3. Free will, personal responsibility and the law. -- My brain made me do it -- Anti-social thoughts and the right to privacy -- The brain produces a poor autobiography -- pt. 4. The nature of moral beliefs and the concept of universal ethics. -- The believing brain -- Toward a universal ethics.
AbstractIncludes information on Alzheimer’s disease, beliefs and believing, children, computer technology, drug enhancements of the brain, drug use and abuse, elderly persons, embryos, emotion, evolution, free will, genetics, brain hemispheres, intelligence, lying and lie detection, memory, religious factors, stem cell research time factors, etc.
ISBN1932594019 (hardcover : alk. paper)SubjectCognitive neuroscience -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Bioethical Issues.
Biomedical Enhancement -- ethics.
Brain -- physiology.
Neurosciences.

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