| Description |
xii, 416 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Series |
Medical law and ethics |
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Medical law and ethics.
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| Contents |
Law, responsibility and the brain -- Brain imaging and courtroom evidence : on the admissibility and persuasiveness of fMRJ -- Mind the gap : problems of mind, body and brain in the criminal law -- Self-exclusion agreements : should we be free not to be free to ruin ourselves? : gambling, self-exclusion agreements and the brain -- The problems with blaming -- Why distinguish "mental" and "physical" illness in the law of involuntary treatment? -- A stable paradigm : revisiting capacity, vulnerability and the rights claims of adolescents after Roper v. Simmons -- Thinking like a child : legal implications of recent developments in brain research for juvenile offenders -- Legal implications of memory-dampening -- Reframing the good death : enhancing choice in dying, neuroscience, end-of-life research and the potential of psychedelics in palliative care -- Equality in exchange revisited from an evolutionary (genetic and cultural) point of view -- Just (and efficient?) compensation for governmental expropriations -- Examining the biological bases of family law : lessons to be learned from the evolutionary analysis of law -- Why do good people steal intellectual property? -- Cues in the courtroom : when do they improve jurors' decisions? -- Reflections on reading : words and pictures and law |
| Notes |
Originated in an interdisciplinary colloquium held in the Law Faculty of University College London (UCL) in 2006 -- pref |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Law -- Psychological aspects.
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Forensic psychology.
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| Author |
Freeman, Michael D. A.
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Goodenough, Oliver R.
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| LC no. |
2008030034 |
| ISBN |
9780754670131 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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0754670139 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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