Dai Rees.
The new brain sciences perils and prospects / [[Book] :] edited by Dai Rees and Steven Rose. - Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004. - xiv, 301 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [276]-284) and index.
The new brain sciences /. Do we ever really act? /. The definition of human nature /. Consciousness and the limits of neurobiology /. Mind metaphors, neurosciences and ethics /. Genetic and generic determinism : a new threat to free will? /. Human action, neuroscience and the law /. Responsibility and the law /. Programmed or licensed to kill? The new biology of femicide /. Genes, responsibility and the law /. The neurosciences : the danger that we will think that we have understood it all /. On dissecting the genetic basis of behaviour and intelligence /. Prospects and perils of stem cell repair of the central nervous system : a brief guide to current science /. The use of human embryonic stem cells for research : an ethical evaluation /. The prozac story /. Psychopharmacology at the interface between the market and the new biology /. Education in the age of ritalin /. Steven Rose -- Mary Midgley -- Merlin W. Donald -- Hilary Rose -- Regine Koller -- Peter Lipton -- Alexander McCall Smith -- Stephen Sedley -- Lorraine Radford -- Patrick Bateson -- Yadin Dudai -- Angus Clarke -- Helen Hodges, Iris Reuter and Helen Pilcher -- Guido de Wert -- John Cornwell -- David Healy -- Paul Cooper.
All Ages.
0521537142 0521830095 (hbk.)
2004045660
Neurosciences--Philosophy.
Neurosciences--Moral and ethical aspects.
612.8`01
/ RN
The new brain sciences perils and prospects / [[Book] :] edited by Dai Rees and Steven Rose. - Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004. - xiv, 301 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [276]-284) and index.
The new brain sciences /. Do we ever really act? /. The definition of human nature /. Consciousness and the limits of neurobiology /. Mind metaphors, neurosciences and ethics /. Genetic and generic determinism : a new threat to free will? /. Human action, neuroscience and the law /. Responsibility and the law /. Programmed or licensed to kill? The new biology of femicide /. Genes, responsibility and the law /. The neurosciences : the danger that we will think that we have understood it all /. On dissecting the genetic basis of behaviour and intelligence /. Prospects and perils of stem cell repair of the central nervous system : a brief guide to current science /. The use of human embryonic stem cells for research : an ethical evaluation /. The prozac story /. Psychopharmacology at the interface between the market and the new biology /. Education in the age of ritalin /. Steven Rose -- Mary Midgley -- Merlin W. Donald -- Hilary Rose -- Regine Koller -- Peter Lipton -- Alexander McCall Smith -- Stephen Sedley -- Lorraine Radford -- Patrick Bateson -- Yadin Dudai -- Angus Clarke -- Helen Hodges, Iris Reuter and Helen Pilcher -- Guido de Wert -- John Cornwell -- David Healy -- Paul Cooper.
All Ages.
0521537142 0521830095 (hbk.)
2004045660
Neurosciences--Philosophy.
Neurosciences--Moral and ethical aspects.
612.8`01
/ RN