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Intervention in the Brain - 9780262018913

Un libro in lingua di Blank Robert H. edito da Mit Pr, 2013

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New findings in neuroscience have given us unprecedented knowledge about the workingsof the brain. Innovative research -- much of it based on neuroimaging results -- suggests not onlytreatments for neural disorders but also the possibility of increasingly precise and effective waysto predict, modify, and control behavior. In this book, Robert Blank examines the complex ethicaland policy issues raised by our new capabilities of intervention in the brain. After surveyingcurrent knowledge about the brain and describing a wide range of experimental and clinicalinterventions -- from behavior-modifying drugs to neural implants to virtual reality -- Blankdiscusses the political and philosophical implications of these scientific advances. If humanindividuality is simply a product of a network of manipulable nerve cell connections, and ifaggressive behavior is a treatable biochemical condition, what happens to our conceptions ofindividual responsibility, autonomy, and free will? In light of new neuroscientific possibilities,Blank considers such topics as informed consent, addiction, criminal justice, racism, commercial andmilitary applications of neuroscience research, new ways to define death, and political ideology andpartisanship. Our political and social institutions have not kept pace with the rapid advances inneuroscience. This book shows why the political issues surrounding the application of this newresearch should be debated before interventions in the brain become routine.

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