The Neuroscience of Fair Play: Why We (Usually) Follow the Golden Rule
Defining Right and Wrong in Brain Science is an authoritative record of the emerging ideas that are defining neuroethics. Edited by University of Calgary philosophy professor Walter Glannon, it is an essential reference for anyone who wants to understand how these issues have taken shape.

Contributors include Adina Roskies, writing on neuroethics for the New millennium, Martha J. Farah and Paul Root Wolpe on monitoring and manipulating brain function, Antonio Damasio on the neural basis of social behavior, and Alan Leshner on ethical issues in taking neuroscience research from bench to bedside. Other thinkers represented in this collection are British Medical Research Council Chairman Colin Blakemore, Patricia Smith Churchland, Arthur Caplan, Paul McHugh, and Anjan Chatterjee.

This book will be indispensable to readers curious about how discoveries in brain science are stirring up classic--and new--questions of ethics.

This new volume is the fifth in The Dana Foundation Series on Neuroethics.
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The Neuroscience of Fair Play: Why We (Usually) Follow the Golden Rule
Defining Right and Wrong in Brain Science is an authoritative record of the emerging ideas that are defining neuroethics. Edited by University of Calgary philosophy professor Walter Glannon, it is an essential reference for anyone who wants to understand how these issues have taken shape.

Contributors include Adina Roskies, writing on neuroethics for the New millennium, Martha J. Farah and Paul Root Wolpe on monitoring and manipulating brain function, Antonio Damasio on the neural basis of social behavior, and Alan Leshner on ethical issues in taking neuroscience research from bench to bedside. Other thinkers represented in this collection are British Medical Research Council Chairman Colin Blakemore, Patricia Smith Churchland, Arthur Caplan, Paul McHugh, and Anjan Chatterjee.

This book will be indispensable to readers curious about how discoveries in brain science are stirring up classic--and new--questions of ethics.

This new volume is the fifth in The Dana Foundation Series on Neuroethics.
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The Neuroscience of Fair Play: Why We (Usually) Follow the Golden Rule

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The Neuroscience of Fair Play: Why We (Usually) Follow the Golden Rule

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Defining Right and Wrong in Brain Science is an authoritative record of the emerging ideas that are defining neuroethics. Edited by University of Calgary philosophy professor Walter Glannon, it is an essential reference for anyone who wants to understand how these issues have taken shape.

Contributors include Adina Roskies, writing on neuroethics for the New millennium, Martha J. Farah and Paul Root Wolpe on monitoring and manipulating brain function, Antonio Damasio on the neural basis of social behavior, and Alan Leshner on ethical issues in taking neuroscience research from bench to bedside. Other thinkers represented in this collection are British Medical Research Council Chairman Colin Blakemore, Patricia Smith Churchland, Arthur Caplan, Paul McHugh, and Anjan Chatterjee.

This book will be indispensable to readers curious about how discoveries in brain science are stirring up classic--and new--questions of ethics.

This new volume is the fifth in The Dana Foundation Series on Neuroethics.

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BN ID: 2940014144742
Publisher: Dana Foundation
Publication date: 03/15/2012
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 234
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

Walter Glannon, Ph.D., holds the Canada Research Chair in Biomedical Ethics and Ethical Theory at the University of Calgary in Alberta. He is the author of many professional papers as well as six books, including Bioethics and the Brain (Oxford University Press, 2006) and Biomedical Ethics (Oxford University Press, 2004).
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