Brain, Body, and Mind Neuroethics with a Human Face [Hardcover]

This book is a discussion of the most timely and contentious issues in the two branches of neuroethics: the neuroscience of ethics; and the ethics of neuroscience. Drawing upon recent work in psychiatry, neurology, and neurosurgery, it develops a phenomenologically inspired theory of neuroscience to explain the brain-mind relation. The idea that the mind is shaped not just by the brain but also by the body and how the human subject interacts with the environment has significant implications for free will, moral responsibility, and moral justification of actions. It also provides a better understanding of how different interventions in the brain can benefit or harm us. In addition, the book discusses brain imaging techniques to diagnose altered states of consciousness, deep-brain stimulation to treat neuropsychiatric disorders, and restorative neurosurgery for neurodegenerative diseases. It examines the medical and ethical trade-offs of these interventions in the brain when they produce both positive and negative physical and psychological effects, and how these trade-offs shape decisions by physicians and patients about whether to provide and undergo them.

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Our Brains Are Not Us
Chapter 2: Neuroscience, Free Will, and Moral Responsibility
Chapter 3: What Neuroscience Can (and Cannot) Tell Us about Criminal Responsibility
Chapter 4: Neuroscience and Moral Reasoning
Chapter 5: Cognitive Enhancement
Chapter 6: Brain Injury and Survival
Chapter 7: Stimulating Brains, Altering Minds
Chapter 8: Regenerating the Brain
Notes
References
Index

As neuroscience provides increasingly powerful investigative methods and therapeutic tools, so conceptual and ethical questions about the relationships between brain and mind become ever more pressing. Walter Glannon provides a highly informed and thoughtful account of several key issues, founded on the controversial but arresting and topicall“5