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2005

Format:	Book
Author:	Gazzaniga, Michael S.
Title:	The ethical brain / Michael S. Gazzaniga.
Publisher, Date:	New York : Dana Press, ©2005.
Description:	xix, 201 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Summary:	Includes information on Alzheimer's disease, beliefs and believing, children, computer technology, drug enhancements of the brain, drug use and abuse, elderly persons, embryos, emotion, evolution, free will, genetics, brain hemispheres, intelligence, lying and lie detection, memory, religious factors, stem cell research time factors, etc.
Subjects:	Cognitive neuroscience -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-194).
Contents:	pt. I. Life-span neuroethics. Conferring moral status on an embryo -- The aging brain -- pt. II. Brain enhancement. Better brains through genes -- Training the brain -- Shaping the smart brain with drugs -- pt. III. Free will, personal responsibility and the law. My brain made me do it -- Antisocial thoughts and the right to privacy -- The brain produces a poor autobiography -- pt. IV. The nature of moral beliefs and the concept of universal ethics. The believing brain -- Toward a universal ethics.
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LCCN:	2004026860
ISBN:	1932594019 9781932594010 0060884738 9780060884734 1932594019 9781932594010
Other Number:	56982463
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Control Number:	799544
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Call Number:	174.2 Gazzanig

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