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Rethinking Cognitive Enhancement
This book critically explores and analyses the scientific and ethical debates surrounding cognitive enhancers. Including contributions from neuroscientists, neuropsychopharmacologists, ethicists, philosophers, public health professionals, and policy researchers, the book offers a multidisciplinary, critical consideration of this topic.
| Author(s) | Edited by Wayne Hall, Ahmed Mohammed. |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Format | Hardback |
| Pages | 336 |
| Published in | United Kingdom |
| Published | 2 Mar 2017 |
| Availability | Not yet available |
This book critically explores and analyses the scientific and ethical debates surrounding cognitive enhancers. Including contributions from neuroscientists, neuropsychopharmacologists, ethicists, philosophers, public health professionals, and policy researchers, the book offers a multidisciplinary, critical consideration of this topic.
PART I: INTRODUCTION TO THE VOLUME; PART II: RISK AND BENEFITS OF THE USE OF NEUROPHARMACOLOGICAL DRUGS FOR COGNITIVE ENHANCEMENT; PART III: ETHICAL, PHILOSOPHICAL, LEGAL AND POLICY ISSUES OF COGNITIVE ENHANCEMENT
Professor Ruud ter Meulen (1952) is psychologist and ethicist. He was Professor and Director at the Institute for Bioethics and the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands. In 2005 he was appointed Chair for Ethics of Medicine and Director of the Cent
