Ethical Questions in Brain and Behavior Problems and Opportunities

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Pfaff, Donald W. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY Springer New York 1983, 1983
Edition:1st ed. 1983
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 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