Ethical Questions in Brain and Behavior [electronic resource] : Problems and Opportunities / edited by Donald W. Pfaff

Title	Ethical Questions in Brain and Behavior [electronic resource] : Problems and Opportunities / edited by Donald W. Pfaff
Imprint	New York, NY : Springer New York, 1983
Connect to	http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5590-1
Descript	158p. online resource

CONTENT

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 โBest Interestโ 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 โOldโ and in with the โNewโโThe 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

SUBJECT

Medicine
Medical ethics
Zoology
Medicine & Public Health
Theory of Medicine/Bioethics
Zoology