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There is a growing literature in neuroethics dealing with cognitive neuro-enhancement for healthy adults. However, discussions on this topic tend to focus on abstract theoretical positions while concrete policy proposals and detailed models are scarce. Furthermore, discussions appear to rely solely on data from the US or UK, while international perspectives are mostly non-existent. This volume fills this gap and addresses issues on cognitive enhancement comprehensively in three important ways: 1) it examines the conceptual implications stemming from competing points of view about the nature and goals of enhancement; 2) it addresses the ethical, social, and legal implications of neuroenhancement from an international and global perspective including contributions from scholars in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, and South America; and 3) it discusses and analyzes concrete legal issues and policy options tailored to specific contexts.

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Author:   Fabrice Jotterand (Senior Researcher, Senior Researcher, Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel) ,  Veljko Dubljevic (Postdoctoral fellow, Postdoctoral fellow, Neuroethics Research Unit, Institut de recherches cliniques de Montreal (IRCM))
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 23.90cm , Height: 3.30cm , Length: 15.70cm
Weight:   0.658kg
ISBN:  

9780199396818

ISBN 10:   0199396817
Pages:   376
Publication Date:   07 July 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction By Fabrice Jotterand and Veljko Dubljevic PART 1: CONCEPTUAL IMPLICATIONS Chapter 2: Towards a more banal neuroethics By Neil Levy Chapter 3: Why less praise for enhanced performance? Moving beyond responsibility-shifting, authenticity, and cheating, towards a nature-of-activities approach By Filippo Santoni de Sio, Nadira Faber, Julian Savulescu, and Nicole A. Vincent Chapter 4: Moral enhancement, Neuroessentialism, and Moral Content By Fabrice Jotterand Chapter 5: Cognitive/neuroenhancement through an Ability Studies Lens By Gregor Wolbring and Lucy Diep Chapter 6: Defining Contexts of Cognitive (Performance) Enhancements: Neuroethical Considerations, and Implications for Policy By John R. Shook and James Giordano PART 2: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES Chapter 7: Cognitive enhancement: A South African Perspective By Dan J. Stein Chapter 8: Cognitive enhancement: A Confucian perspective from Taiwan By Kevin Chien-Chang Wu Chapter 9: Enhancing Cognition in the 'Brain Nation': An Israeli Perspective By Hillel Braude Chapter 10: Cognitive Enhancement Down-Under: An Australian Perspective By Charmaine Jensen, Brad Partridge, Cynthia Forlini, Wayne Hall and Jayne Lucke Chapter 11: Cognitive Enhancement in Germany: Prevalence, Attitudes, Moral Acceptability, Terms, Legal Status, and the Ethics Debate by Sebastian Sattler Chapter 12: Cognitive enhancement in the Netherlands: Practices, public opinion and ethics By Maartje Schermer Chapter 13: Cognitive enhancement in Canada: An overview of conceptual and contextual aspects, policy discussions, and academic research By Eric Racine Chapter 14: Cognitive enhancement and the leveling of the playing-field: The case of Latin America By Daniel Loewe PART 3: LAW AND POLICY OPTIONS Chapter 15: Regulating Cognitive Enhancement Technologies: Policy Options and Problems By Robert H. Blank Chapter 16: Enhancing with Modafinil: Benefiting or harming society? By Veljko Dubljevic Chapter 17: Towards an Ethical Framework for Regulating the Market for Cognitive Enhancement Devices By Hannah Maslen Chapter 18: A constitutional Right to Use Thought-Enhancing Technology By Mark Jonathan Blitz Chapter 19: Drugs, Enhancements & Rights: Ten Points for Lawmakers to Consider By Jan-Christoph Bublitz Chapter 20: Cognitive Enhancement in the Courtroom: What can we learn about the ethics of pharmacological cognitive enhancement by looking at judicial cognition? By Jennifer A. Chandler and Adam M. Dodek Epilogue: A Feast of Thinking on the Naturalization of Enhancement Neurotechnology By Judy Illes

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Fabrice Jotterand&, PhD, MA, is Associate Professor & Director of the Graduate Program in Bioethics at the Center for Bioethics and Medical Humanities, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, USA and Senior Researcher at the Institute for Biomedical Ethics, University of Basel, Switzerland. His scholarship and research interests focus on issues including moral enhancement, neurotechnologies and human identity, the use of neurotechnologies in psychiatry, medical professionalism, and moral and political philosophy. Veljko Dubljevic, PhD, DPhil, is a Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in the Neuroethics research unit at IRCM and McGill University in Montreal, and an associate member of the International Centre for Ethics in the Sciences and Humanities, University of Tübingen. He obtained a PhD in political science (University of Belgrade), and after studying bioethics, philosophy and neuroscience (University of Tübingen), he obtained a doctorate in philosophy (University of Stuttgart). His primary research focuses on ethics of neuroscience and technology, and neuroscience of ethics. He has over 30 publications in moral, legal and political philosophy and in neuroethics.

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