Law, mind and brain /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Freeman, Michael D. A., Goodenough, Oliver R.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2009]
Series:Medical law and ethics.
Subjects:
Table of 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.