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Living in a Neurosciety: A Neuroethics Overview

Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-12-01 15:46

The Brain and the Person: Does Neuroscience Challenge Personal Moral Agency?

Authors: Morse, Stephen J.
Publication Type: Audiovisual
Abstract: This is a audiovisual recording of a talk given by DrDr. Stephen J. Morse, Ferdinand Wakeman Hubbell Professor of Law, Professor of Psychology and Law in Psychiatry at the Penn Law School and Associate Director of the Penn Center fo...
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.ethicslibrary.org/resources/107/

Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-12-01 12:45

fMRI and Lie Detection

Authors: Connolly, Peggy ; Leever, Martin ; Althaus, Ruth Ann ; Skipper, Robert Boyd ; Bellon, Christina ; Brinkman, Anthony
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Imaging technologies, such as magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) have proven to be a powerful diagnostic tool in clinical medicine, and a recent innovation, functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) allows neuroscientists to track ...
Year: 2007
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/fMRI.pdf

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-03-15 16:25

Forbidden Pleasure

Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: When the mother of a mentally handicapped girl of fourteen is forced by poor health to place her daughter, Sophia, in assisted living, she worries about Sophia's sexual and reproductive anatomy. Sophia loves playing with her doll...
Year: 2009
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Forbidden%20Pleasure.pdf

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-03-09 12:10

Life and death decisions : psychological and ethical considerations in end-of-life care

Authors: Kleespies, Phillip M.
Publication Type: Book
Abstract: This book seeks to offer health practitioners a guide about the choices that people must make regarding how they will die, or how they will resist dying, and the ethical issues involved in making those choices....
Year: 2004

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-07-14 13:42

Should competence be coerced?

Authors: Reamer, Frederic G. ; Kelly, Michael J.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Abstract: Presents a case study and commentary on a rape suspect who has been advised by his attorney to discontinue taking antipsychotic medicine. Right of patient to refuse treatment; State's interest in resolving a criminal matter....
Year: 1990

Biblio - Anonymous - 2010-11-16 12:52

Should psychiatrists serve as gatekeepers for physician-assisted suicide?

Authors: Sullivan, Mark D. ; Ganzini, Linda
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Focuses on mandatory psychiatric evaluation for patients who request physician-assisted suicide. Information on the relationship between mental illness and decisionmaking capacity in dying patients; Insight into casting psychiatrist...
Year: 1998

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 16:58

You Always Were a Bastard

Authors: Gillett, Grant
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Talks about relationship between self and mind. Examples of brain functions; Information self; Similarities of mind to an iceberg....
Year: 2002

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 15:53

Emily's Scars

Authors: Frank, Arthur W.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Discourages the use of surgery to shape a body, in order to measure up to standards of normality and beauty in the U.S. Differences between consumer-protection bioethics and socratic bioethics; Arguments against the context in which...
Year: 2004

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 15:50

Nondirective Counseling or Advice? Psychotherapy as Value Laden

Authors: Gaylin, Willard
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Examines the values involved in psychotherapy. Reasons for the reluctance of psychoanalytic psychotherapists to give advice to patients; One factor that will determine the propriety of infusing values; Illustrative examples....
Year: 2000

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 15:52

Pursued by Happiness and Beaten Senseless

Authors: Elliott, Carl
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Focuses on the debate about what conditions Prozac can and should address and the authenticity of using this drug for psychic well-being. Worries about Prozac; Difference of alienation from kinds of descriptors that psychiatry uses ...
Year: 2000

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 15:43

The second-hand suicide threat

Authors: Gaylin, Willard ; Doukas, David
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Opinion. Presents a case study of a seventy-year-old man who had a series of myocardial infarction and who has threatened to commit suicide. Prognosis of illness; Nature of suicide threats in the elderly; Impact of terminal illness ...
Year: 1995

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 15:37

The run on Ritalin : Attention Deficit Disorder and Stimulant Treatment in the 1990s

Authors: Diller, Lawrence H.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Focuses on factors behind the increased use of the stimulant Ritalin for the treatment of attention deficit disorder in American children. Changes in diagnostic criteria; Pressures on physicians and educators; Disability issue; Cult...
Year: 1996

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 15:36

Prozac, Enhancement, and Self-Creation

Authors: DeGrazia, David
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Discusses the use of Prozac, which produces transformations of personality, and presents issues of enhancement and self-creation. Projects of self-creation; Self-creation as conceived in the way suggested by Jonathan Glover; Concern...
Year: 2000

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 15:35

Minds and Hearts : Priorities in Mental Health Services

Authors: Boyle, Philip J. ; Callahan, Daniel
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: Stresses the necessity of formulating priorities regarding mental health services by the Hastings Center Project on Priorities in Mental Health. Involvement in the health planning process; Need for reform; Limitations of insurance p...
Year: 1993

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 15:13

A Suicide Right for the Mentally Ill?

Authors: Appel, Jacob M.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Hastings Center Report
Abstract: The article presents an essay on the Swiss Federal Supreme Court's guidelines under which, assisted suicide will be available to psychiatric patients and others with mental illness. Arguments supporting assisted suicide are laid at ...
Year: 2007
DOI: A Swiss Case Opens a New Debate

Biblio - KBL781 - 2010-11-18 15:05

Amputation of a Healthy Limb

Authors: Hinman, Lawrence ; Englehardt, Elaine ; Leever, Martin ; Robert Ladenson ; Cox-White, Becky ; Connolly, Peggy
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: A doctor is asked by a patient to amputate on of his legs even though there is nothing physically wrong with the limb. The doctor performed the surgery, despite being advised to do otherwise by a psychiatrist. The patient, who was...
Year: 2001
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Amputation%20of%20a%20Healthy%20Limb.pdf

Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-01-06 15:12

Brain Disorders--Scientific Facts, Media, and Public Perception

Authors: Shamoo, Adil E.
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Accountability in Research: Policies & Quality Assurance
Abstract: Focuses on scientific facts on and media and public perception of brain disorders. Evidence of their physical nature; Etiology and environment of and model for therapy for brain disorders; Need to eliminate sources of dehumanizing i...
Year: 1997
DOI: 10.1080/08989629708573907

Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-01-25 18:15

A model for teaching bioethics and human rights through cinema and popular TV series: A methodological approach

Authors: Fariña, Juan Jorge Michel
Publication Type: Journal Article
Secondary Title: Counselling Psychology Quarterly
Abstract: This paper describes a unique model of using scenarios in the form of film clips from popular television series and films to teach human rights from a perspective of bioethics. The methodology has been developed over twelve years of...
Year: 2009
DOI: 10.1080/09515070902853946

Biblio - KBL781 - 2011-02-07 15:58

When a Patient Refuses Surgery

Authors: Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, Illinois Institute of Technology ; Robert Ladenson
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: After the car that he is driving at high speed hits a telephone pole, Mr. D is brought to the hospital emergency room in serious condition. The physician examining him recommends surgery to repair a major internal hemorrhage, but Mr...
Year: 1994
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Refuse%20Surgery%20.pdf

Biblio - Anonymous - 2011-07-14 09:58

Legal Requirement for Mentally Ill Patients to Take Medication

Authors: Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions, Illinois Institute of Technology ; Robert Ladenson
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: In 1995, Michael Vernon killed five people entirely unknown to him in a shoe store in the Bronx, New York. Mr. Vernon had previously been diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic, and had been in and out of psychiatric hospitals. At th...
Year: 1996
URL: http://ethics.iit.edu/EEL/Medication%20.pdf

Biblio - Anonymous - 2011-08-05 15:07

Delinquency or Mental Health Problem? The Case of Pablo Sanchez

Authors: Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University ; Peterson-Iyer, Karen
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: This case study, explores some of cultural issues that can arise when providing counseling services to individuals. In this case, a 14 year old boy whose mother is an illegal immigrant from Mexico, is referred to a counselor by his ...
Year: 2011
URL: http://www.scu.edu/ethics/practicing/focusareas/medical/culturally-competent-care/mental-health.html

Biblio - Anonymous - 2011-06-17 15:09

The Brain and the Person: Does Neuroscience Challenge Personal Moral Agency?

Authors: Morse, Stephen J.
Publication Type: Audiovisual
Abstract: This is a audiovisual recording of a talk given by DrDr. Stephen J. Morse, Ferdinand Wakeman Hubbell Professor of Law, Professor of Psychology and Law in Psychiatry at the Penn Law School and Associate Director of the Penn Center fo...
Year: 2009
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QC9qaPpc2A

Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-12-01 12:45

Neuroethics- Are Brains Better?

Authors: Chatterjee, Anjan
Publication Type: Audiovisual
Abstract: This talk by Dr. Anjan Chatterjee, Professor of neurology at Penn and Associate Director of the Penn Center for Neuroscience & Society focuses on the use of pharmacological enhancements in normal individuals....
Year: 2008
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh2VTVWI1P8

Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-12-01 14:17

The Criminal Brain: How, Could and Should we Change it?

Authors: Raine, Adrian
Publication Type: Case Study
Abstract: Dr. Adrian Raine, professor of criminology and psychiatry at Penn. The talk focuses on an examination of the brain basis to crime and violence....
Year: 2008
URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzGfZaI6itg

Biblio - KBL781 - 2009-12-01 14:08