Title Statements
- Full title :The ethical brain / Michael S. Gazzaniga.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:©2005.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Dana Press
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2005.
Notes
Includes 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.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xix, 201 p.) : : il
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781932594218, 1932594213
- oclc:ocn955654062
- Dewey Decimal:174.2/928233
Table of Contents
pt. 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.
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