- 354 pages
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About this book
New technologies that allow us to investigate mechanisms and functions of the brain have shown considerable promise in treating brain disease and injury. These emerging technologies also provide a means to assess and manipulate human consciousness, cognitions, emotions, and behaviors, bringing with them the potential to transform society. Neurotech
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Series Preface: Advances in Neurotechnology: Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues
- Foreword: Toward Our Neurofuture: Challenges, Risks, and Opportunities
- Acknowledgments
- Editor
- Contributors
- Chapter 1: Neurotechnology as Demiurgical Force: Avoiding Icarus’ Folly
- Chapter 2: The Potential Utility of Advanced Sciences Convergence: Analytical Methods to Depict, Assess, and Forecast Trends in Neuroscience and Neurotechnological Developments and Uses
- Chapter 3: Is the Use of Neurotechnology in Education an Enablement, Treatment, or Enhancement?
- Chapter 4: Images of Uncertainty: Two Cases of Neuroimages and What They Cannot Show
- Chapter 5: Neurogenetic and Neural Tissue-Implantation Technology: Neuroethical, Legal, and Social Issues
- Chapter 6: Neuroprotective Agents Commonly Display Hormesis: Implications for Nanoneuropharmacology
- Chapter 7: Neuroprostheses: Implications of the Current and Future State of the Science and Technology
- Chapter 8: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, Deep Brain Stimulation, and Personal Identity: Ethical Questions and Neuroethical Approaches for Medical Practice
- Chapter 9: Promises and Perils of Cognitive Performance Tools: A Dialogue
- Chapter 10: The Age of Neuroelectronics
- Chapter 11: Ethical Issues in Performance-Enhancing Technologies: From Bench to Headline
- Chapter 12: The Cyborg and Cyborgization
- Chapter 13: Is Neuroenhancement Unnatural, and Does It Morally Matter?
- Chapter 14: A Surety Engineering Framework and Process to Address Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues for Neurotechnologies
- Chapter 15: Neurotechnology, Culture, and the Need for a Cosmopolitan Neuroethics
- Chapter 16: Cognitive Enhancement, Analogical Reasoning, and Social Justice
- Chapter 17: Policy Implications of Technologies for Cognitive Enhancement
- Chapter 18: Neurotechnology Research and the World Stage: Ethics, Biopower, and Policy
- Chapter 19: Biotechnology: Who Benefits, Who Is Harmed?
- Index