This book examines the way in which new discoveries about genetic and neuroscience are influencing our understanding of human behaviour. As scientists unravel more about the ways in which genes and the environment work together to shape the development of our brains, their studies have importance beyond the narrow confines of the laboratory. This emerging knowledge has implications for our notions of morality and criminal responsibility. The extent to which biological determinism can be used as an explanation for our behaviour is of interest to philosophers reflecting on the free will versus...
This book examines the way in which new discoveries about genetic and neuroscience are influencing our understanding of human behaviour. As scientists...
Recent biomedical discoveries promise considerable improvement in the quality of human life, but they also hold the potential to permanently alter society. Are the anticipated benefits worth the price we would have to pay for them? In Where Science and Ethics Meet: Dilemmas at the Frontiers of Medicine and Biology, a biochemist and a biomedical researcher who are highly experienced in explaining ethics for lay audiences present the most innovative advances in biomedicine and enable readers to develop their own opinions about the ethical and social consequences these technologies...
Recent biomedical discoveries promise considerable improvement in the quality of human life, but they also hold the potential to permanently alter ...
