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Cognitive Enhancement
Robert H. Blank
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Description for Cognitive Enhancement
hardcover. Rapid advances in cognitive neuroscience and converging technologies have led to a vigorous ethical and scientific debate over cognitive enhancement for healthy individuals. This book explores these less studied policy and political aspects of cognitive enhancement to focus on the possible forms of government involvement and future research. Num Pages: 150 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPQ; JMR; PSAN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 216 x 140 x 13. Weight in Grams: 344.
Rapid advances in cognitive neuroscience and converging technologies have led to a vigorous debate over cognitive enhancement. This book outlines the ethical and social issues, but goes on to focus on the policy dimensions, which until now have received much less attention. As the economic, social and personal stakes involved with cognitive enhancement are so high, and the advances in knowledge so swift, we are likely to see increasing demands for government involvement in cognitive enhancement techniques. The book therefore places these techniques in a political context and brings the subsequent considerations and divisions to the forefront of the ... Read more
Rapid advances in cognitive neuroscience and converging technologies have led to a vigorous debate over cognitive enhancement. This book outlines the ethical and social issues, but goes on to focus on the policy dimensions, which until now have received much less attention. As the economic, social and personal stakes involved with cognitive enhancement are so high, and the advances in knowledge so swift, we are likely to see increasing demands for government involvement in cognitive enhancement techniques. The book therefore places these techniques in a political context and brings the subsequent considerations and divisions to the forefront of the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
150
Condition
New
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137572479
SKU
V9781137572479
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99-15
About Robert H. Blank
Robert H. Blank is Adjunct Professor at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. Among his previous academic positions were Chair of Public Policy at Brunel University in West London, UK and frequent guest professorships at Aarhus University, Denmark and National Taiwan University, Taiwan. He has also held residential fellowships at Vanderbilt University, USA, Stanford University, USA, Indiana University, USA, ... Read more
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