The New Brain Sciences [Kindle Edition]
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The New Brain Sciences
Download books file now The New Brain Sciences from with Mediafire Link Download Link The last 20 years have seen an explosion of research and development in the neurosciences. Indeed, some have called this first decade of the 21st century "the decade of the mind". An all-encompassing term, the neurosciences cover such fields as biology, psychology, neurology, psychiatry and philosophy and include anatomy, physiology, molecular biology, genetics and behaviour. It is now a major industry with billions of dollars of funding invested from both public and private sectors. Huge progress has been made in our understanding of the brain and its functions. However, with progress comes controversy, responsibility and dilemma. The New Brain Sciences: Perils and Prospects examines the implications of recent discoveries in terms of our sense of individual responsibility and personhood. With contributing chapters from respected and influential names in neuroscience, law, psychology, philosophy and sociology, The New Brain Sciences should kick-start a discussion of where neuroscience is headed. Download latest books on mediafire and other links compilation The New Brain Sciences [Kindle Edition]
Download books file now The New Brain Sciences from with Mediafire Link Download Link The last 20 years have seen an explosion of research and development in the neurosciences. Indeed, some have called this first decade of the 21st century "the decade of the mind". An all-encompassing term, the neurosciences cover such fields as biology, psychology, neurology, psychiatry and philosophy and include anatomy, physiology, molecular biology, genetics and behaviour. It is now a major industry with billions of dollars of funding invested from both public and private sectors. Huge progress has been made in our understanding of the brain and its functions. However, with progress comes controversy, responsibility and dilemma. The New Brain Sciences: Perils and Prospects examines the implications of recent discoveries in terms of our sense of individual responsibility and personhood. With contributing chapters from respected and influential names in neuroscience, law, psychology, philosophy and sociology, The New Brain Sciences should kick-start a discussion of where neuroscience is headed. Download latest books on mediafire and other links compilation The New Brain Sciences [Kindle Edition]
- File Size: 550 KB
- Print Length: 324 pages
- Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0521537142
- Simultaneous Device Usage: Up to 4 simultaneous devices, per publisher limits
- Publisher: Cambridge University Press (October 21, 2004)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B000SI8DTO
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
- Lending: Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,485,014 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
This is a fascinating book that has been assembled by two of the intellectual powerhouses of British medicine and biology.
In the introduction, Steven Rose, who has been a Professor of Biology and Director of the Brain and Behavior Research Group at the Open University since 1969, calls the neurosciences "that final terra incognita, the nature of consciousness itself." He proposes that developments in neurology, molecular biology and other neurosciences have been isolated from their sociological and economic context and have instead been dominated by a reductionist search for quick genetic and pharmacological quick solutions.
The book is based on two meetings that explored neuroscience and neuroethics and it is divided into five sections and sixteen chapters followed by a good list of references and potted biographies of the authors.
Part I. Introduction: The new brain sciences: Stephen Rose
Part II. Freedom to Change
1. Do we ever really act?: Mary Midgley
2. The definition of human nature: Merlin Donald
3. Consciousness and the limits of neurobiology: Hilary Rose
4. Mind metaphors. Neurosciences and ethics: Regine Kollek
5. Genetic and generic determinism. A new threat to free will?: Peter Lipton
Part III. Neuroscience and the Law
6. Human action, neuroscience and the law: Alexander McCall Smith
7. Responsibility and the law: Stephen Sedley
8. Programmed or licensed to kill? The new biology of femicide: Lorraine Radford
9. Genes, responsibility and the law: Patrick Bateson
Part IV. Stewardship of the New Brain Sciences
10. The neurosciences: the danger that we will think we have understood it all: Yadin Dudai
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