Ethical Questions in Brain and Behavior: Problems and Opportunities

ISBN-13: 9781461255925 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 158 str.

Donald W. Pfaff

Spis treści

1 Introductory Remarks.- I Special Ethical Problems in Dealing with Neural and Behavioral Disorders.- 2 Making and Using Psychiatric Diagnoses: Ethical Issues.- 3 Problems of Informed Consent with the Cognitively Impaired.- 4 Treatment Refusals: Autonomy, Paternalism, and the “Best Interest” of the Patient.- 5 Ethical Considerations in the Care of Unconscious Patients.- 6 Legal Aspects of Ethics in the Neural Behavioral Sciences.- II Studies of the Biology Neurology of Behavior: Implications for Ethics.- 7 Out with the “Old” and in with the “New”—The Evolution and Refinement of Sociobiological Theory.- 8 Some Paradoxical Goals of Cells and Organisms: The Role of the MHC.- 9 Motives and Metaphors in Considerations of Animal Nature.- 10 Neurobiological Origins of Human Values.