Neuroethics

Neuroethics

Published Nov. 11, 2025 by MIT Press.

ISBN:
978-0-262-55352-0
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Neuroethics is an introduction to the main ethical and legal issues in six areas of experimental and clinical neuroscience: neuroimaging, disorders of consciousness, brain death, cognitive and moral enhancement, the neurobiological basis of moral reasoning, and neural prosthetics. This book offers a uniquely comprehensive discussion of the main issues in the ethics of neuroscience and the neuroscience of ethics that have developed over the last 25 years.

Walter Glannon captures the historical, current, and future-oriented aspects of neuroethics and discusses emerging issues such as the use of machine learning and artificial intelligence in diagnostic and predictive neuroimaging, brain organoids, and neural prosthetics, as well as neurorights to protect information about people’s brains.

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A Techno-Utopian Ethical Tract that Ignores the Big Issues

It's fairly shocking to read a book that's nominally about an area of bioethics that manages to ignore the main lessons of the Belmont Report, but this one does. While the early chapters are good, things start to take a turn when uncritically engaging with "moral modification," and only gets worse when examining transhumanism and brain computer interfaces. There are many better books on this topic, even if some of their scientific citations are dated.

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