Neuroethics

“In Neuroethics, Walter Glannon offers a comprehensive and rigorous, yet approachable, scholarly introduction to the field of neuroethics. Readers will enjoy learning about the history of the field and key questions in neuroethics, and this book is peppered with relevant and astonishing insights from landmark cases and studies in neuroscience, philosophy, neurology, law, and psychology. Glannon’s unmatched expertise brings a humanistic vision of neuroscience.” —Eric Racine, Professor of Health Ethics, Montreal Clinical Research Institute and Université de Montréal“Walter Glannon has been a key scholar of neuroethics from the beginning, helping to identify and understand the ethical questions and to map and critique the key arguments emerging in this young field. His latest book offers readers an up-to-date overview of thinking on the main topics in neuroethics, addressing the clinical, just, and broader sociopolitical implications of evolving brain sciences and technologies.” —Jennifer Chandler, Canada Research Chair in the Law and Ethics of Brain Technologies, University of Ottawa“To characterize [Glannon’s] new book as introductory, although academically accurate, would fall short of appreciating its illumination of perplexing issues across bioethics, medicine, psychiatry, philosophy of mind, moral philosophy, and law. His expertise with philosophical, ethical, and clinical dimensions of neuroscience informs an agent‐centered locus for assessing biopsychological knowledge while steering neuroethics away from metaphysical mind‐body misadventures.” —Bioethics

Walter Glannon is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Calgary. His main areas of interest are bioethics and neuropsychiatry. He is the author or editor of 15 books.