Intervention in the brain : politics, policy, and ethics / Robert H. Blank.
2013
RC343 .B53 2013eb
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Title
Intervention in the brain : politics, policy, and ethics / Robert H. Blank.
Author
Blank, Robert H.
ISBN
0262313731 (electronic bk.)
9780262313735 (electronic bk.)
1299482899
9781299482890
9780262018913 (hardcover ; q alk. paper)
0262018918 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
9780262313735 (electronic bk.)
1299482899
9781299482890
9780262018913 (hardcover ; q alk. paper)
0262018918 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
Publication Details
Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©2013.
Copyright
©2013
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (370 pages).
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RC343 .B53 2013eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
612.8/2
Summary
The political and policy implications of recent developments in neuroscience, including new techniques in imaging and neurogenetics. New findings in neuroscience have given us unprecedented knowledge about the workings of the brain. Innovative research--much of it based on neuroimaging results--suggests not only treatments for neural disorders but also the possibility of increasingly precise and effective ways to predict, modify, and control behavior. In this book, Robert Blank examines the complex ethical and policy issues raised by our new capabilities of intervention in the brain. After surveying current knowledge about the brain and describing a wide range of experimental and clinical interventions--from behavior-modifying drugs to neural implants to virtual reality--Blank discusses the political and philosophical implications of these scientific advances. If human individuality is simply a product of a network of manipulable nerve cell connections, and if aggressive behavior is a treatable biochemical condition, what happens to our conceptions of individual responsibility, autonomy, and free will? In light of new neuroscientific possibilities, Blank considers such topics as informed consent, addiction, criminal justice, racism, commercial and military applications of neuroscience research, new ways to define death, and political ideology and partisanship. Our political and social institutions have not kept pace with the rapid advances in neuroscience. This book shows why the political issues surrounding the application of this new research should be debated before interventions in the brain become routine. -- Provided by publisher.
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