Tells us about the field of nueroethics. This book talks about what makes monitoring and manipulating the human brain so ethically challenging; and will having a new biology of the brain through imaging make us less responsible for our behavior and lose our free will? Written by distinguished authors, it is an an introduction to neuroethics.

PART I - NEUROSCIENCE, ETHICS, AGENCY AND THE SELF ; 1. Moral decision-making and the brain ; 2. A case study in neuroethics: the nature of moral judgment ; 3. Moral and legal responsibility and the new neuroscience ; 4. Brains, lies and psychological explanations ; 5. Being in the world ; 6. Creativity, gratitude and the enhancement debate: on the fertile tension between two ethical frameworks ; 7. Ethical dilemmas in neurodegenerative disease: respecting the margins of agency ; PART II - NEUROETHICS IN PRACTICE ; 8. From genome to brainome: charting lessons learned ; 9. Protecting human subjects in brain research: a pragmatic perspective ; 10. Facts, fictions and the future of neuroethics ; 11. A picture is worth 1000 words, but which 1000? ; 12. When genes and brains unite: ethical implications of genomic neuroimaging ; 13. Engineering the mind ; 14. Transcranial magnetic stimulation and the human brain: an ethical evaluation ; 15. Functional neurosurgical intervention: neuroethics in the operating room ; 16. Clinicians, patients and the brain ; PART III - JUSTICE, SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND NEUROETHICS ; 17. The social effects of advances in neuroscience: legal problems, legal perspectives ; 18. Poverty, privilege and the developing brain: empirical findings and ethical implications ; 19. Neuroethcis in education ; 20. Religious responses to neuroscientific questions ; 21. The mind in the movies: a neuroethical analysis of the portrayal of the mind in popular media

Neuroethics is rapidly developing into a major field in its own right, as new neuroscientific techniques continue to cast light on human behaviour This first book on neuroethics brings together a stellar list of contributors to form a ground-breaking interdisciplinary introduction to the field Includes forewords from Colin Blakemore and Arthur Kaplan

Neuroethics is rapidly developing into a major field in its own right, as new neuroscientific techniques continue to cast light on human behaviour This first book on neuroethics brings together a stellar list of contributors to form a ground-breaking interdisciplinary introduction to the field Includes forewords from Colin Blakemore and Arthur Kaplan