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Brain policy : how the new neuroscience will change our lives and our politics / Robert Blank.

Title: Brain policy : how the new neuroscience will change our lives and our politics / Robert Blank.
Author: Blank, Robert H.
Publication: Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, c1999.

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viii, 199 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

As new treatments emerge for disorders of the brain, new concerns are arising along with them. This book examines the implications of the full range of revolutionary interventions now possible in the human brain. The author warns that while these new techniques may promise medical wonders, they also raise profound political questions.--[book cover].

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Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-191) and index.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: intervention in the brain -- The brain: structure, development, and death -- The brain, the mind, and consciousness -- Genetics and the brain -- The brain and behavior -- Brain intervention techniques -- Neural grafting -- Neurotoxicity -- Conclusions: the emergence of brain policy.

ISBN

087840712X (cloth)
0878407138 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^^98046088^

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Harvard Library