Intervention in the Brain : Politics, Policy, and Ethics

摘要: New findings in neuroscience have given us unprecedented knowledge about the workings of brain. Innovative research -- much it based on neuroimaging results suggests not only treatments for neural disorders but also possibility increasingly precise and effective ways to predict, modify, control behavior. In this book, Robert Blank examines complex ethical policy issues raised by our new capabilities intervention After surveying current brain describing a wide range experimental clinical interventions from behavior-modifying drugs implants virtual reality discusses political philosophical implications these scientific advances. If human individuality is simply product network manipulable nerve cell connections, if aggressive behavior treatable biochemical condition, what happens conceptions individual responsibility, autonomy, free will? light neuroscientific possibilities, considers such topics as informed consent, addiction, criminal justice, racism, commercial military applications research, define death, ideology partisanship. Our social institutions kept pace with rapid advances neuroscience. This book shows why surrounding application should be debated before become routine.