Pragmatic neuroethics
Subtitle: improving treatment and understanding of the mind-brain
By: Eric Racine
Series: Basic bioethics
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 267
ISBN-13: 9780262014199
Subjects: Neurosciences; Moral and ethical aspects; Neurology; Behavior; Morals; Bioethical Issues; Ethics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-253) and index.
Table of contents: title: Salient challenges in modern neuroethics; title: Reviewing past and current neuroethics : definitions, attributes, and perspectives; title: Pragmatic naturalism in bioethics; title: Neuroethics : exploring the implications of pragmatic naturalism; title: Public understanding of neuroscience innovation and emerging interpretations of neuroscience research; title: Enhancement of performance with neuropharmaceuticals : pragmatism and the culture wars; title: Disorders of consciousness in an evolving neuroscience context; title: Communication of prognosis in disorders of consciousness and severe brain injury : a closer look at paradoxical discourses in the clinical and public domains; title: Social neuroscience : a pragmatic epistemological and ethical framework for the neuroscience of ethics; title: Conclusion : neuroethics and future challenges for neuroscience, ethics, and society.