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• Title:The ethical brain / Michael S. Gazzaniga.
  
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• Author/Creator:Gazzaniga, Michael S.
  
• Published/Created:New York : Dana Press, ©2005.
  

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  • Call Number: WB60 .G393 2005
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

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  • Call Number: WB60 .G393 2005
    
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  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Cognitive neuroscience--Moral and ethical aspects.
  
• Medical Subjects: Bioethical Issues.
  Brain--physiology.
  Biomedical Enhancement--ethics.
  Neurosciences.
  
• Description:xix, 201 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  
• Summary:Includes information on Alzheimer's disease, beliefs and believing, children, computer technology, drug enhancements of the brain, drug use and abuse, elderly persons, embryos, emotion, evolution, free will, genetics, brain hemispheres, intelligence, lying and lie detection, memory, religious factors, stem cell research time factors, etc.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-194).
  
• ISBN:1932594019 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
  9781932594010 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
  0060884738
  9780060884734
  
• Contents:pt. I. Life-span neuroethics. Conferring moral status on an embryo
  The aging brain
  pt. II. Brain enhancement. Better brains through genes
  Training the brain
  Shaping the smart brain with drugs
  pt. III. Free will, personal responsibility and the law. My brain made me do it
  Antisocial thoughts and the right to privacy
  The brain produces a poor autobiography
  pt. IV. The nature of moral beliefs and the concept of universal ethics. The believing brain
  Toward a universal ethics.