Ethical Brain The Science of Our Moral Dilemmas

Name: Ethical Brain The Science of Our Moral Dilemmas
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ISBN: 9780060884734

ISBN-10: 0060884738

ISBN-13: 9780060884734

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Authors: Michael S. Gazzaniga

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A provocative and fascinating look at new discoveries about the brain that challenge our ethics The rapid advance of scientific knowledge has raised ethical dilemmas that humankind has never before had to address. Questions about the moment when life technically begins and ends or about the morality of genetically designing babies are now relevant and timely. Our ever-increasing knowledge of the workings of the human brain can guide us in the formation of new moral principles in the twenty-first century. In The Ethical Brain, preeminent neuroscientist Michael S. Gazzaniga presents the emerging social and ethical issues arising out of modern-day brain science and challenges the way we…

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List price: $16.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 5/9/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.54" tall
Weight: 0.440

Michael S. Gazzaniga is Professor of Psychology and Director of the SAGE Center for the Study of Mind at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Co-Director of the Summer Institute in Cognitive Neuroscience, and President of the Cognitive Neuroscience Institute.



Acknowledgments


Preface



Life-Span Neuroethics



Conferring Moral Status on an Embryo



The Aging Brain



Brain Enhancement



Better Brains Through Genes



Training the Brain



Shaping the Smart Brain with Drugs



Free Will, Personal Responsibility, and the Law



My Brain Made Me Do It



Antisocial Thoughts and the Right to Privacy



The Brain Produces a Poor Autobiography



The Nature of Moral Beliefs and the Concept of Universal Ethics



The Believing Brain



Toward a Universal Ethics


Endnotes


Index