Thus, neuroethics refers to the analysis of the intersection of advances in neuroscience with social values and ethics. Neuroethics is a subdiscipline of bioethics, with research and scholarship exploding in the past decade. Comprehensive textbooks, websites, and entire professional journals are now devoted to neuroethics.
With the generous support of the Dana Foundation we are working to provide resources to high school teachers about cutting edge issues in neuroethics. As we develop and assemble these resources, we welcome your input. If you have ideas or suggestions related to teaching bioethics to high school students or if you are seeking support in developing a bioethics course at your school, please contact us.
In the News
The University of Pennsylvania has launched the Penn Center for Neuroscience and Society, a cross-disciplinary endeavor to increase understanding of the impact of neuroscience on society through research and teaching and to encourage the responsible use of neuroscience for the benefit of humanity.
The University of Pennsylvania has launched the Penn Center for Neuroscience and Society, a cross-disciplinary endeavor to increase understanding of the impact of neuroscience on society through research and teaching and to encourage the responsible use of neuroscience for the benefit of humanity.
Super soldiers equipped with neural implants, suits that contain biosensors, and thought scans of detainees may become reality sooner than you think. Find out how neuroscience is changing modern warfare, and discover the ethical implications with guest Jonathan Moreno.
"Some of the world's top scientists and ethicists met at Banff earlier in March, to ponder the most pressing issues in neuroscience. Their focus: Neuroethics. Watch the videos and get your cerebral gears in motion. And don't forget to tell us what you think." The Discovery Channel The Sunny Side of an Unpayable Mortgage: A Look at the Neurobiology of Social Cooperation
by Arthur Robinson Williams and Daniel D. Langleben
From a biological standpoint, socially cooperative behaviors could be an end to themselves, as far as your unconscious brain is concerned. But financial systems and policies ignoring the often-unconscious human social instincts do so at their peril.
Neuroethics on 60 Minutes, featuring Dr. Paul Root Wolpe: Neuroscience has learned much about the brain's activity and its link to certain thoughts. As Lesley Stahl reports, it may now be possible, on a basic level, to read a person's mind.
Drugs to make terrorists talk? Brain research to build a better soldier? Future robot armies? Sounds sci-fi, but according to Dr Jonathan Moreno, Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, many of these technologies are here and more are on the way. Neuroscience research is growing at an exponential rate, a fact Moreno explores in his new book, "Mind Wars".
"Students Learn How, Not What, to Think About Difficult Issues"
Greg Miller
A new project at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) will help teachers tackle topics in neuroethics, such as potential forensic and military uses of brain-imaging technology and the care of patients in a persistent vegetative state (see hsneuroethics.org/). Funded by the Dana Foundation and led by bioethics graduate student Dominic Sisti, the program will supplement a high school bioethics project begun several years ago by Penn bioethicist Arthur Caplan. The group is developing a neuroethics primer and will run workshops for local teachers.
Science 10 October 2008: Vol. 322. no. 5899, pp. 186 - 187
Greg Miller
A new project at the University of Pennsylvania (Penn) will help teachers tackle topics in neuroethics, such as potential forensic and military uses of brain-imaging technology and the care of patients in a persistent vegetative state (see hsneuroethics.org/). Funded by the Dana Foundation and led by bioethics graduate student Dominic Sisti, the program will supplement a high school bioethics project begun several years ago by Penn bioethicist Arthur Caplan. The group is developing a neuroethics primer and will run workshops for local teachers.
Science 10 October 2008: Vol. 322. no. 5899, pp. 186 - 187
