Ethical Questions in Brain and Behavior

Problems and Opportunities
Herausgegeben:Pfaff, Donald W.

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer / Springer New York / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-1-4612-5592-5
• Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1983
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 270g
• ISBN-13: 9781461255925
• ISBN-10: 1461255929
• Artikelnr.: 36120458

Inhaltsangabe

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.