The ethical brain

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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.

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Full title :The ethical brain / Michael S. Gazzaniga.

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Publication Date:©2005.

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Publisher(s):Dana Press
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2005.

The Physical Object

Description:xix, 201 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:1932594019, 9781932594010, 0060884738, 9780060884734
oclc:ocm56982463
LC Classification:QP360.5
Dewey Decimal:174.2/928233

pt. I. Life-span neuroethics. Conferring moral status on an embryo -- The aging brain -- pt. II. Brain enhancement. Better brains through genes -- Training the brain -- Shaping the smart brain with drugs -- pt. III. 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 -- pt. IV. The nature of moral beliefs and the concept of universal ethics. The believing brain -- Toward a universal ethics.

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77.50 psychophysiology Bioethical Issues Bioethics Bioethik Bioéthique Biomedical Enhancement -- ethics Brain -- physiology Cognitive neuroscience -- Moral and eth… Ethik Ethische aspecten Kognitionswissenschaft Neurologie Neurosciences Neurosciences cognitives -- Aspect moral Neurowetenschappen