Brain Policy: How the New Neuroscience Will Change Our Lives and Our Politics Pdf

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Edition: 1
Release: 1999-02-01
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0878407138
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

Brain Policy pdf
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Neural grafting, virtual reality, gene therapy, psychotropic drugs … As startling new treatments emerge for disorders of the brain, new concerns are arising along with them. In the first book to examine the implications of the full range of revolutionary interventions now possible in the human brain, Robert H. Blank warns that while these new techniques may promise medical wonders, they also raise profound political questions. Our rapidly unfolding knowledge about the brain and the accompanying applications have three main policy dimensions: funding research initiatives, controlling individual use, and assessing social consequences. But underlying these aspects, Blank argues, are more disturbing issues that pose fundamental challenges to our conceptions of equality, autonomy, freedom, responsibility, and human nature itself. Brain Policy makes the key facts from the technical literature readily accessible to social scientists and general readers and points out the implications for o Download Brain Policy for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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