di Anjan Chatterjee (a cura di)
Martha J. Farah (a cura di)
Neuroethics is concerned with the wide array of
ethical, legal and social issues that are raised in research and practice. The
field has grown rapidly over the last five years, becoming an active
interdisciplinary research area involving a much larger set of academic fields
and professions, including law, developmental psychology, neuropsychiatry, and
the military.
Neuroethics and Practice helps to define and foster
this emerging area at the intersection of neuroethics and clinical
neuroscience, which includes neurology, neurosurgery, psychiatry and their
pediatric subspecialties, as well as neurorehabiliation, clinical
neuropsychology, clinical bioethics, and the myriad other clinical specialties
(including nursing and geriatrics) in which practitioners grapple with issues
of mind and brain. Chatterjee and Farah have brought together leading
neuroethicists working in clinically relevant areas to contribute chapters on
an intellectually fascinating and clinically important set of neuroethical
topics, involving brain enhancements, brain imaging, competence and
responsibility, severe brain damage, and consequences of new neurotechnologies.
Although this book will be of direct interest to clinicians, as the first
edited volume to provide an overall comprehensive perspective on neurethics
across disciplines, it is also a unique and useful resource for a wide range of
other scholars and students interested in ethics and neuroscience.
