Includes bibliographical references (p. [276]-284) and index.
Contents:
Do we ever really act? / Mary Midgley -- The definition of human nature / Merlin W. Donald -- Consciousness and the limits of neurobiology / Hilary Rose -- Mind metaphors, neurosciences and ethics / Regine Kollek -- Genetic and generic determinism : a new threat to free will? / Peter Lipton -- Human action, neuroscience and the law / Alexander McCall Smith -- Responsibility and the law / Stephen Sedley -- Programmed or licensed to kill? The new biology of femicide / Lorraine Radford -- Genes, responsibility and the law / Patrick Bateson -- The neurosciences : the danger that we will think that we have understood it all / Yadin Dudai -- On dissecting the genetic basis of behaviour and intelligence / Angus Clarke -- Prospects and perils of stem cell repair of the central nervous system : a brief guide to current science / Helen Hodges, Iris Reuter and Helen Pilcher -- The use of human embryonic stem cells for research : an ethical evaluation / Guido de Wert -- The Prozac story / John Cornwell -- Psychopharmacology at the interface between the market and the new biology / David Healy -- Education in the age of Ritalin / Paul Cooper.
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