Neurotechnology
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Neurotechnology

Premises, Potential, and Problems

  1. 354 pages
  2. English
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Neurotechnology

Premises, Potential, and Problems

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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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Publisher
CRC Press
Year
2012
ISBN
9781439826287

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Dedication
  6. Table of Contents
  7. Series Preface: Advances in Neurotechnology: Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues
  8. Foreword: Toward Our Neurofuture: Challenges, Risks, and Opportunities
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. Editor
  11. Contributors
  12. Chapter 1: Neurotechnology as Demiurgical Force: Avoiding Icarus’ Folly
  13. Chapter 2: The Potential Utility of Advanced Sciences Convergence: Analytical Methods to Depict, Assess, and Forecast Trends in Neuroscience and Neurotechnological Developments and Uses
  14. Chapter 3: Is the Use of Neurotechnology in Education an Enablement, Treatment, or Enhancement?
  15. Chapter 4: Images of Uncertainty: Two Cases of Neuroimages and What They Cannot Show
  16. Chapter 5: Neurogenetic and Neural Tissue-Implantation Technology: Neuroethical, Legal, and Social Issues
  17. Chapter 6: Neuroprotective Agents Commonly Display Hormesis: Implications for Nanoneuropharmacology
  18. Chapter 7: Neuroprostheses: Implications of the Current and Future State of the Science and Technology
  19. Chapter 8: Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation, Deep Brain Stimulation, and Personal Identity: Ethical Questions and Neuroethical Approaches for Medical Practice
  20. Chapter 9: Promises and Perils of Cognitive Performance Tools: A Dialogue
  21. Chapter 10: The Age of Neuroelectronics
  22. Chapter 11: Ethical Issues in Performance-Enhancing Technologies: From Bench to Headline
  23. Chapter 12: The Cyborg and Cyborgization
  24. Chapter 13: Is Neuroenhancement Unnatural, and Does It Morally Matter?
  25. Chapter 14: A Surety Engineering Framework and Process to Address Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues for Neurotechnologies
  26. Chapter 15: Neurotechnology, Culture, and the Need for a Cosmopolitan Neuroethics
  27. Chapter 16: Cognitive Enhancement, Analogical Reasoning, and Social Justice
  28. Chapter 17: Policy Implications of Technologies for Cognitive Enhancement
  29. Chapter 18: Neurotechnology Research and the World Stage: Ethics, Biopower, and Policy
  30. Chapter 19: Biotechnology: Who Benefits, Who Is Harmed?
  31. Index