Neuroethics: Anticipating the Future 2017

The last decade has seen advances in the understanding of brain science. However, with the development of tools that can manipulate brain function, there are pressing ethical implications for this newfound knowledge of how the brain works. In Neuroethics: Anticipating the Future, a distinguished group of contributors addresses current and critical ethical questions and offers forward-looking insights. What new balance should be found between diagnosis and prognosis or invasive and non-invasive interventions, given the rapid advances in neuroscience? Are new criteria needed for the clinical definition of death for those eligible for organ donation? As data from new technologies becomes available in public databases, what framework will maximise the benefits while ensuring the privacy of health information? These challenging questions, along with many other neuroethics issues, are discussed in detail. Written by distinguished scholars from a variety of disciplines, including neurology and neuroscience, ethics and law, public health and philosophy, this new volume on neuroethics presents many necessary considerations for the future. It is essential reading for the fields of neuroethics, neuroscience and psychology and an invaluable resource for neuroscience practitioners, humanities and legal scholars and health policy makers.