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This book explores the impact of neuroscience research over the past 20 or more years on brain function as it affects moral decisions. Findings show that the mind and brain are very close, if not the same, and that the brain 'makes' the mind. This is bringing about a change of focus from examining mental activity (mentalism) to the physical activity of the brain (physicalism) to understand thinking and behavior. We are discovering that the physical features of the brain play the major role in shaping our thoughts and emotions, including the way we deal with 'moral' issues. This book sets out the historical framework of the transition from 'mentalism' to 'physicalism', shows how the physical brain works in moral decisions and then examines three broad areas of moral decision-making - the brain in 'bad' acts, the brain in decisions involving sexual relations, and the brain in money decision-making.

Cognitive psychology --- General ethics --- Neuroscience. --- Brain --- Cognitive neuroscience. --- Ethics. --- Mental Processes --- Morals. --- Psychology and philosophy. --- physiology. --- Cognitive neuropsychology --- Cognitive science --- Neuropsychology --- Deontology --- Ethics, Primitive --- Ethology --- Moral philosophy --- Morality --- Morals --- Philosophy, Moral --- Science, Moral --- Philosophy --- Values --- Philosophy and psychology --- Arts and Humanities

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What happens when two systems, law and medicine, are joined in the arena of the court? This work deals with the structure and the premises of two diverse discourse models; the approach is anthropological. Several chapters are preponderantly based on legal research, addressing cases requiring testimony by expert witnesses on recent technologies used in the laboratories of medical scientists. Descriptions of other societies and cultures consider the identical problems of rights, privileges, and duties, and provide perspectives to cultural self-knowledge. This volume can be used as a text for courses taught in medical schools and law schools. It will be of particular interest to students taking courses in health science, public health, medical anthropology, forensic anthropology, psychology, sociology, public justice, behavioral sciences, forensic psychiatry, legal anthropology, social welfare, as well as courses on research models. "This book illuminates our path through the largely uncharted terrain of two diverse systems of reasoning, law and medicine, as they interact in the courts. Through cultural, historical and contemporary examples such as the O.J. Simpson case, it leads us to a new way of knowing." Igor Grant, Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry and Director of the HIV Neurobehavioral Research Center, University of California, San Diego "Provides a critical framework for considering science as ‘truth’ and illustrates the political nature of legal functioning. It will enlighten the intelligent lay person and reward the expert as it provides compressed moments of historical and cultural analyses that would make a fine novelist proud". Leonard V. Kaplan, Mortimer Jackson Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin "A ground-breaking and original contribution which transcends the isolation between medical and legal thought systems. Refreshingly free of jargon, this is medical anthropology at its most thoughtful and practical, and should be required reading wherever doctors, lawyers and medical anthropologists are trained". Ivan Brady, Distinguished Teaching Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, State University of New York (Oswego) "The O.J. Simpson trial is particularly gripping. Science in the laboratory is contrasted with "forensic science", and the epistemology of perception and ideological interpretations are also insightfully discussed. An excellent and well-written book. Hugo G. Nutini, University Professor of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh .

Medical laws and legislation. --- Medical jurisprudence. --- Culture and law. --- Law and culture --- Forensic medicine --- Injuries (Law) --- Jurisprudence, Medical --- Legal medicine --- Law, Medical --- Medical personnel --- Medical registration and examination --- Medicine --- Physicians --- Surgeons --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Law and legislation --- Medicine. --- Political science. --- Philosophy and science. --- Medical ethics. --- Medicine & Public Health. --- Medicine/Public Health, general. --- Theory of Medicine/Bioethics. --- Philosophy of Law. --- Philosophy of Medicine. --- Philosophy of Science. --- Medical Law. --- Philosophy. --- Medical policy --- Medical jurisprudence --- Law --- Forensic sciences --- Medical laws and legislation --- Philosophy of law. --- Medicine-Philosophy. --- Science --- Public health laws. --- Communicable diseases --- Public health --- Normal science --- Philosophy of science --- Biomedical ethics --- Clinical ethics --- Ethics, Medical --- Health care ethics --- Medical care --- Bioethics --- Professional ethics --- Nursing ethics --- Social medicine --- Clinical sciences --- Medical profession --- Human biology --- Life sciences --- Medical sciences --- Pathology --- Moral and ethical aspects --- Health Workforce --- Medicine—Philosophy. --- Science and philosophy --- Administration --- Civil government --- Commonwealth, The --- Government --- Political theory --- Political thought --- Politics --- Science, Political --- Social sciences --- State, The

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Status of persons --- Psychiatry --- Medical law --- United States --- Forensic psychiatry --- Mental health laws --- Mental health personnel --- Forensic psychiatry. --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- Legal status, laws, etc --- United States of America

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