Oxford Handbook of Neuroethics - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0199680639 ISBN 13: 9780199680634

Casa editrice: OUP Oxford, 2013

Riassunto

The past two decades have seen unparalleled developments in our knowledge of the brain and mind. However, these advances have forced us to confront head-on some significant ethical issues regarding our application of this information in the real world- whether using brain images to establish guilt within a court of law, or developing drugs to enhance cognition.

Historically, any consideration of the ethical, legal, and social implications of emerging technologies in science and medicine has lagged behind the discovery of the technology itself. These delays have caused problems in the acceptability and potential applications of biomedical advances and posed significant problems for the scientific community and the public alike - for example in the case of genetic screening and human cloning. The field of Neuroethics aims to proactively anticipate ethical, legal and social issues at the intersection of neuroscience and ethics, raising questions about what the brain tells us about ourselves, whether the information is what people want or ought to know, and how best to communicate it.

A landmark in the academic literature, the Oxford Handbook of Neuroethics presents a pioneering review of a topic central to the sciences and humanities. It presents a range of chapters considering key issues, discussion, and debate at the intersection of brain and ethics. The handbook contains more than 50 chapters by leaders from around the world and a broad range of sectors of academia and clinical practice spanning the neurosciences, medical sciences and humanities and law. The book focuses on and provides a platform for dialogue of what neuroscience can do, what we might expect neuroscience will do, and what neuroscience ought to do. The major themes include: consciousness and intention; responsibility and determinism; mind and body; neurotechnology; ageing and dementia; law and public policy; and science, society and international perspectives.

Tackling some of the most significant ethical issues that face us now and will continue to do so over the coming decades, The Oxford Handbook of Neuroethics will be an essential resource for the field of neuroethics for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, basic scientists in the neurosciences and psychology, scholars in humanities and law, as well as physicians practising in the areas of primary care in neurological medicine.

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Dr. Illes is Professor of Neurology and Canada Research Chair in Neuroethics at the University of British Columbia. She is Director of the National Core for Neuroethics at UBC, and faculty in the Brain Research Centre at UBC and the Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute. She also holds affiliate appointments in the School of Population and Public Health and the School of Journalism at UBC, and in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA, USA. Dr. Illes' research focuses on ethical, legal, social and policy challenges specifically at the intersection of the neurosciences and biomedical ethics. This includes studies on stem cells and regenerative medicine, functional neuroimaging in basic and clinical research dementia, addiction, neurodevelopmental disorders and the commercialization of cognitive neuroscience. Barbara J Sahakian is Professor of Clinical Neuropsychology at the University of Cambridge Department of Psychiatry, and the Medical Research Council/Wellcome Trust Behavioural and Clinical Neuroscience Institute. She is also a Clinical Psychologist. She has an international reputation in the fields of cognitive psychopharmacology, neuroethics, neuropsychology, neuropsychiatry and neuroimaging. She is co-inventor of the CANTAB computerised neuropsychological tests, which are in use world-wide. She is probably best known for her research work on cognition and depression, cognitive enhancement using pharmacological treatments, neuroethics and early detection of Alzheimer's disease. She has over 300 publications covering these topics in various scientific journals. Her current programme of research, investigates the neurochemical modulation of impulsive and compulsive behaviour in neuropsychiatric disorders, such as unipolar and bipolar depression.

Contenuti:

• Judy Illes and Barbara J. Sahakian: Preface
• Alan I. Leshner: Foreword
• Consciousness and Intention: Decoding Mental States and Decision Making
• John Dylan-Haynes: Brain Reading: Decoding Mental States from Brain Activity in Humans
• Morten Kringelbach and Kent C. Berridge: The Neurobiology of Pleasure and Happiness
• Christopher Suhler and Patricia Churchland: The Neurobiological Basis of Morality
• Monica Luciana: Development of the Adolescent Brain: Neuroethical Implications for the Understanding of Executive Function and Social Cognition
• Mario Beauregard: Neural Foundations to Conscious and Volitional Control of Emotional Behaviour: A Mentalistic Perspective
• Georgio Ganis and J. Peter Rosenfeld: Neural Correlates of Deception
• Camile Chatelle and Steven Laureys: Understanding Disorders of Consciousness
• Adrian M. Owen: Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Covert Awareness, and Brain Injury
• Responsibility and Determinism
• Bernard Baertschi and Alexandre Mauron: Genetic Determinism, Neuronal Determinism, and Determinism Tout Court
• Peter B. Reiner: The Rise of Neuroessentialism
• Martina Reske and Martin P. Paulus: A Neuroscientific Approach to Addiction: Ethical Concerns
• Steven E. Hyman: The Neurobiology of Addiction: Implications for Voluntary Control of Behaviour
• Patrick Haggard: Neuroethics of Free Will
• Mind and Body
• Sharon Morein-Zamir and Barbara J. Sahakian: Pharmaceutical Cognitive Enhancement
• Elisabeth Hildt and Thomas Metzinger: Cognitive Enhancement
• John Harris: Chemical Cognitive Enhancement: Is it Unfair, Unjust, Discriminatory or Cheating for Healthy Adults to Use Smart Drugs?
• Anders Sandberg, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, and Julian Savulescu: Cognitive Enhancement in Courts
• Neil Levy: Neuroethics and the Extended Mind
• Hervé Chneiweiss: Does Cognitive Enhancement Fit with the Physiology of our Cognition?
• James M. Swanson, Timothy Wigal, Kimberley Lakes, and Nora D. Volkow: ADHD: Defining a Spectrum Disorder and Considering Neuroethical Implications
• Neurotechnology
• Ruth Fischbach and Janet Mindes: Why Neuroethicists are Needed
• Carole Federico, Sofia Lombera, and Judy Illes: Intersecting Complexities in Neuroimaging and Neuroethics
• Michael R. Hadskis and MatthiasH. Schmidt: Pediatric Neuroimaging Research
• Nir Lipsman and Mark Bernstein: Ethical Issues in Functional Neurosurgery: Emerging Applications and Controversies
• Alvaro Pascual-Leone, Felipe Fregni, and Megan S. Steven, and Lachlan Forrow: Noninvasive Brain Stimulation as a Therapeutic and Investigative Tool: An Ethical Appraisal
• Debra J.H. Matthews, Peter V. Rabins, and Ben D. Greenberg: DBS for Treatment-Resistant Neuropsychiatric Disorders
• Roger A. Barker and Alisdair Coles: The Ethical Issues of Trials of Neural Grafting in Patients with Neurodegenerative Conditions
• George Khushf: The Ethics of Nano/Neuro Convergence
• Aging and Dementia
• Karima Kahlaoui, Maximiliano Wilson, Ana Ines Ansaldo, Bernadette Ska, and Yves Joanette: Neurobiological and Neuroethical Perspectives on the Contribution of Functional Neuroimaging to the Study of Aging in the Brain
• Samia Hurst: Clinical Research on Conditions Affecting Cognitive Capacity
• Ging-Yuek Robin Hsiung: Ethical Concerns and Pitfalls in Neurogenetic Testing
• Marilyn S. Albert and Guy M. McKhann: Neuroethical Issues in Early Detection of Alzheimer's Disease
• Jerry Samet and Yaakov Stern: The Neuroethics of Cognitive Reserve
• Silke Appel-Cresswell and A. Jon Stoessl: Ethical Issues in the Management of Parkinson's Disease
• Adrian J. Ivinson: The Other Ethical Challenge of Neurodegenerative Diseases
• Julian C. Hughes: Future Scoping: Ethical Issues in Ageing and Dementia
• Law and Public Policy
• Susan M. Wolf: Incidental Findings in Neuroscience Research: A Fundamental Challenge to the Structure of Bioethics and Health Law
• Emily R. Murphy and Henry T. Greely: What Will Be the Limits of Neuroscience-Based Mindreading in the Law?
• Joshua Greene and Jonathan Cohen: For the Law, Neuroscience Changes Nothing and Everything
• Teneille R. Brown and Jennifer B. McCormick: New Directions in Neuroscience Policy
• Stacey A. Tovino: Women's Neuroethics
• Amy Zarzeczny and Timothy Caulfield: Public Representations of Neurogenetics
• Jonathan D. Moreno: Brain Trust: Neuroscience and National Security in the Twenty-First Century
• Science, Society, and International Perspectives
• Bruce E. Wexler: Neuroplasticity, Culture and Society
• Martha J. Farah: Neuroscience and Neuroethics in the 21st Century
• Eric Racine: Neuroscience and the Media: Ethical Challenges and Opportunities
• Zachary Stein, Bruno della Chiesa, Christina Hinton, and Kurt W. Fischer: Ethical Issues in Educational Neuroscience: Raising Children in a Brave New World
• Daofen Chen and Remi Quirion: From the Internationalization to the Globalization of Neuroethics: Some Perspectives and Challenges
• Jessica Evert, Robert Huish, Gary Heit, Evaleen Jones, Scott Loeliger, and Steve Schmidbauer: Global Health Ethics
• Craig van Dyke: Ethical Perspectives: Clinical Drug Trials in Developing Countries
• Kate Tairyan and Erica Frank: Learning about Neuroethics Through Health Sciences Online: A Model for Global Dissemination
• Joseph J. Fins: Epilogue: Neuroethics and the Lure of Technology

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• Editore: OUP Oxford
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0199680639
• ISBN 13: 9780199680634
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 976
• Redattore: Illes Judy, Sahakian Barbara J.