The new brain sciences perils and prospects
The last 20 years have seen an explosion of research and development in the neurosciences. Indeed, some have called this first decade of the 21st century 'the decade of the mind'. An all-encompassing term, the neurosciences cover such fields as biology, psychology, neurology, psychiatry an...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press
2004.
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| Colección: | CUP ebooks.
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| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
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Tabla de Contenidos:
- Do we ever really act? / Mary Midgley
- The definition of human nature / Merlin W. Donald
- Consciousness and the limits of neurobiology / Hilary Rose
- Mind metaphors, neurosciences and ethics / Regine Kollek
- Genetic and generic determinism : a new threat to free will? / Peter Lipton
- Human action, neuroscience and the law / Alexander McCall Smith
- Responsibility and the law / Stephen Sedley
- Programmed or licensed to kill? : the new biology of femicide / Lorraine Radford
- Genes, responsibility and the law / Patrick Bateson
- The neurosciences : the danger that we will think that we have understood it all / Yadin Dudai
- On dissecting the genetic basis of behaviour and intelligence / Angus Clarke
- Prospects and perils of stem cell repair of the central nervous system : a brief guide to current science / Helen Hodges, Iris Reuter and Helen Pilcher
- The use of human embryonic stem cells for research : an ethical evaluation / Guido de Wert
- The Prozac story / John Cornwell
- Psychopharmacology at the interface between the market and the new biology / David Healy
- Education in the age of Ritalin / Paul Cooper.
