Ethical Questions in Brain and Behavior : Problems and Opportunities
- Responsibility
- edited by Donald W. Pfaff.
- Imprint
- New York, NY : Springer New York, 1983.
- Physical description
- 1 online resource (158 pages)
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Creators/Contributors
- Author/Creator
- Pfaff, Donald W.
Contents/Summary
- Contents
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- 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.
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Bibliographic information
- Publication date
- 1983
- ISBN
- 9781461255901 (electronic bk.)
- 1461255902 (electronic bk.)
- 9781461255925 (print)
- 1461255929 (print)
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-1-4612-5590-1
