Research Catalog

Title

Neuroscience and the law : brain, mind, and the scales of justice : a report on an invitational meeting convened by the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Dana Foundation / edited by Brent Garland ; [foreword by Mark S. Frankel].

Publication

New York : Dana Press ; Washington, D.C. : AAAS, c2004.

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Additional Authors

• American Association for the Advancement of Science.
• Charles A. Dana Foundation.
• Garland, Brent.

Description

xi, 229 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

"A report on an invitational meeting convened by the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the Dana Foundation."

Subject

• Brain > Imaging
• Confidentiality > legislation & jurisprudence
• Confidentiality > legislation & jurisprudence > United States
• Forensic Medicine
• Forensic Medicine > United States
• Neurosciences > Research
• Neurosciences > legislation & jurisprudence
• Neurosciences > legislation & jurisprudence > United States
• Neurosciences > trends
• Neurosciences > trends > United States
• Neuroscientists > Legal status, laws, etc. > United States
• Personal Autonomy
• Personal Autonomy > United States
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Framing the issues -- Monitoring and imaging the brain -- Modifying the brain -- Cross-cutting legal issues -- Future directions -- Free will in the 21st century: a discussion of neuroscience and the law / by Michael S. Gazzaniga and Megan S. Steven -- Neuroscience developments and the law / by Laurence Tancredi -- Prediction, litigation, privacy, and property: some possible legal and social implications of advances in neuroscience / by Henry Greely -- New neuroscience, old problems / by Stephen Morse.

ISBN

1932594043 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2004002405

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library