Walter Glannon's Psychiatric Neuroethics provides keen insights into the intersecting domains of brain science, mental health practice, philosophy, ethics, and law. In addressing longstanding philosophical questions about the nature of the mind, self, and psychiatry as a discipline, Glannon presents a detailed examination of the ways in which ongoing neuroscientific research has been used, or in some cases misused, in the understanding, classification,
diagnosis, and care of mental illness. This book affords a prudent perspective on neuroethical issues, questions, and possible solutions that are important in guiding applications of brain science in the clinical practices of the field-in- evolution that is psychiatry.
Walter Glannon is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Calgary. He received his PhD in Philosophy from Yale University. His research interests lie primarily in the areas of free will, moral and legal responsibility, transplantation ethics and neuroethics.