Neuroethics ((3))

Catalog description

This course will examine the ethical, legal and social issues raised by neuroscience including the implications of new knowledge of the brain for our understanding of selfhood, for the meaning of privacy, and for an understanding of various aspects of human behavior, personality, and consciousness. Topics addressed will include the distinction between therapy and enhancement, focusing on various technologies such as neurogenetics, neuropharmacology, and brain stimulation, and the uses of these neuro-technologies such as neuroimaging in the courts, by private companies and other institutions such as the military.