The ethical brain : the science of our moral dilemmas /
Michael S. Gazzaniga.
- New York HarperPerennial 2006
- xix, 202, 16 pages ; 21 cm
Previously published: New York : Dana Press, c2005. "An Ecco book."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Part I Life-Span Neuroethics--Conferring Moral Status on an Embryo--The Aging Brain--Part II Brain Enchancement--Better Brains Through Genes--Training the Brain--Shaping the Smart Brain with Drugs--Part III Free Will, Personal Responsability, and the Law--My Brain Made Me Do It--Antisocial Thoughts and the Right to Privacy--The Brain Produces a Poor Autobiography--Part IV The Nature of Moral Beliefs and the Concept of Universal Ethics--The Beliving Brain--Toward a Universal Ethics.
The rapid advance of scientific knowledge has raised ethical dilemmas that humankind has never before had to address. Questions about the moment when life technically begins and ends or about the morality of genetically desining babies are now relevant and timely. Our ever-incresing knowledge of the workings of the human brain can guide us in the formation of new moral principles in the twenty-first century. In the Ethical Brain, preeminent neuroscientist Michael S. Gazzaniga presents the emerging social and ethical issues arising out of modern-day brain science and challenges the way we look at them. Courageous and thought-provoking–a work of enormous intelligence, insight, amd importance– this book explores the hitherto uncharted landscape where science and society interesect.