Title Neuroethical policy design : a lifetime's exploration of public policy and human brains / Dana Lee Baker, Raquel Lisette Baker

Published Cham : Springer, [2022] ©2022

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 198 pages) : illustrations Series Studies in brain and mind ; volume 20 Studies in brain and mind ; v. 20. Contents Brains in society : of the people, for the people and by the people? -- Early childhood education : access through 1990s neuroscience -- Bullying and the eye of the beholder -- Medicine and the mind : treating the adolescent brain -- Ages of consent and majority -- Knowledge and wisdom : high stakes testing and learning outcomes -- Fairness and bias : discrimination in the workplace -- Persistence of memory : bearing witness and serving on a jury -- Happy golden years : retirement policy -- Will to live and living will -- Complexity is our responsibility : concluding thoughts on moving forward Summary This volume focuses on the emergent field of neuroethics comparing and contrasting how two democracies, Canada and the United States, have begun adapting public policy design to better fit human minds. The book focuses on issues relevant to all members of the general population and discusses a series of policy issues arranged roughly in the order in which they become relevant in a typical persons lifetime. After the introductory chapter each chapter considers an area of public policy particularly relevant to a different stage of life from early childhood education policy, to policies for higher education and the workplace, to end of life decisions in living wills and advance directives. The author puts forth that making the shift towards more neurologically appropriate policy will likely be a gradual process hampered primarily by two issues. The first is the inability of neuroscientists to come to agreement on increasingly sophisticated research findings. The second issue points out that bringing policy and neurology into a more synchronous relationship requires a commitment to prolonged effort involves the largely unrecognized reality of entrenched neurological interests. The first chapter introduces the concept of disconnect between policy design with traditional understandings of the brain and goes on to highlight developments in the science of human neurology in recent years. To help contextualize the book, examples of neurological misperceptions are explored in this introductory chapter. Chapters Two through Eleven each explores a specific type of policy, incorporating understandings of the human brain which, modern neuroscience suggests, are debatable Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed March 10, 2022) Subject Policy sciences -- Canada Policy sciences -- United States Policy sciences -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Canada Policy sciences -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States Neurosciences -- Political aspects -- Canada Neurosciences -- Political aspects -- United States Neurosciences -- Political aspects Policy sciences Policy sciences -- Moral and ethical aspects Canada United States Form Electronic book Author Baker, Raquel Lisette, author ISBN 9783030922894 3030922898

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