Ben Waber reviewed Neuroethics by Walter Glannon
A Techno-Utopian Ethical Tract that Ignores the Big Issues
2 stars
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.
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.