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Neuroethics: Mapping the Field
edited by Steven J. Marcus,
367 pp., ill., New York, NY, The Dana Press, 2002, available by request from The Dana Foundation and in PDF at www.dana.org
This book comprises the proceedings of a 2-day conference held in San Francisco in May 2002, sponsored by The Dana Foundation and hosted by Stanford University and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Conference chair Zach Hall, former Executive Vice Chancellor of UCSF, past director of the National Institute of Neurological Diseases and Stroke, and now President and CEO of a biotechnology company, credits wordmonger William Safire, Chairman of The Dana Foundation, with coining the term neuroethics. This “distinct portion of bioethics,” as Safire explains it, has to do with “the examination of what is right and wrong, good and bad about the treatment of, perfection of, or unwelcome invasion of and worrisome manipulation of the human brain.” The conference organizers define neuroethics as “the study of the ethical, legal, and social questions that arise when scientific findings about the brain are carried into medical practice, legal interpretations and health and social policy.” Research in human genetics has given rise to similar considerations, discussed at length in the conference.
An impressive group—neuroscientists, ethicists, philosophers, clinicians, lawyers, administrators, science writers, a sociologist, and an anthropologist—participated. A speaker often wore more than one thinking cap. Four of the sessions linked …
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