Biotechnology and the Human Good
This book does not focus primarily on neuroethics, but on biotechnology. However, Chapter three, “Biotechnology and Competing Worldviews” provides a great evaluation of different assumptions and frameworks that people use to make biotechnological decisions. These assumptions are applicable for neuroethics. Furthermore, Chapter six focuses on biotechnological enhancement, which can give hints on the issues of enhancement in neuroethics.
Neuroethics: Defining the Issues, Practice and Policy
This collection of twenty-one essays, edited by Judy Illes, is a great introduction for anyone interested in neuroethics. As Illes writes, “It is a mirror of the first years of dedicated work, thinking, and commitment, and provides an entry way for much that is still to come” (x). As hinted in the title, this book is divided in three parts: 1) Neuroscience, ethics, agency, and the self; 2) Neuroethics in practice; 3) Justice, social institutions, and neuroethics.
Defining Right and Wrong in Brain Science: Essential Readings in Neuroethics
This book is also a collection of essays that “puts most of its emphasis on different ethical, legal, and social dimension of neuroimaging and psychopharmacology” (xvii). It is divided in six parts: 1) Foundational Issues; 2) Professional Obligation and Public Understanding; 3) Neuoimaging; 4) Free Will, Moral Reasoning, and Responsability; 5) Psychopharmacology; and 6) Brain Injury and Brain Death. The first part is really helpful as it tries to define the new field of neuroethics and the “emerging ethical issues in neuroscience.” It has been edited by Walter Glannon, professor at the University of Calgary.
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