Neuroethics addresses a wide range of ethical, legal and social issues that arise in research and practice. The field has grown rapidly over the past five years to become an active interdisciplinary research area encompassing a much larger set of academic disciplines and professions, including law, developmental psychology and neuropsychiatry. This book helps to define and support this emerging field at the intersection of neuroethics and clinical neuroscience, which encompasses neurology, neurosurgery, psychiatry and their paediatric subgroups, as well as neurorehabilitation, clinical neuropsychology, clinical bioethics and myriad other clinical specialties (including nursing and geriatrics), where practitioners grapple with issues of mind and brain. Chatterjee and Farah have brought together leading neuroethicists working in clinically relevant areas to write chapters on an intellectually fascinating and clinically important set of neuroethical issues, covering brain enhancement, brain imaging, competence and accountability, serious brain injury and the implications of new neurotechnologies.
