Neuroethics: Defining the Issues in Theory, Practice, and Policy

PART I - NEUROSCIENCE, ETHICS, AGENCY AND THE SELF 1. Moral decision-making and the brain 2. A case study in neuroethics: the nature of moral judgment 3. Moral and legal responsibility and the new neuroscience 4. Brains, lies and psychological explanations 5. Being in the world: neuroscience and the ethical agent 6. Creativity, gratitude and the enhancement debate: 7. Ethical dilemmas in neurodegenerative disease: respecting patients at the twlight of agency PART II - NEUROETHICS IN PRACTICE 8. From genome to brainome: charting the lessons learned 9. Protecting human subjects in brain research: a pragmatic perspective 10. Facts, fictions and the future of neuroethics 11. A picture is worth 1000 words, but which 1000? 12. When genes and brains unite: ethical implications of genomic neuroimaging 13. Engineering the brain 14. Transcranial magnetic stimulation and the human brain: an ethical evaluation 15. Functional neurosurgical intervention: neuroethics in the operating room 16. Clinicians, patients and the brain PART III - JUSTICE, SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS AND NEUROETHICS 17. The social effects of advances in neuroscience: legal problems, legal perspectives 19. Poverty, privilege and brain development: empirical findings and ethical implications 20. Religious responses to neuroscientific questions 21. The mind in the movies: a neuroethical analysis of the portrayal of the mind in popular media