Neuroethics and Neurodevelopment

· Developments in Neuroethics and Bioethics Book 6 · Elsevier
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This volume focuses on topics at the intersection between neuroethics and neurodevelopment, and brings together the perspectives of experts in both clinical assessment and intervention, and researchers in child psychology, neurosciences, medicine, health policy, law, and social work. The goal is to review emerging issues related to the ethical ramifications of how variation in human neurodevelopment is described, and the effects of these descriptions on those with lived experience, clinical and intervention services, and health and social policy. Related topics are also explored including the effect of the Covid-19 pandemic, the ethics of invasive neurotechnology interventions, biomarkers, machine learning, precision medicine. - Provides novel and original research on the emerging field of the legal regulation of neuroscience - Takes an interdisciplinary approach, with chapters by global scholars from several disciplines, including law, philosophy and medicine - Develops a global approach that will be useful in jurisdictions around the globe

About the author

Dr. W. Ben Gibbard is an Associate Professor in the Department of Pediatrics at the Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary. He is also the Section Chief for Developmental Pediatrics at the Alberta Children’s Hospital. Research interests include topics in neuroethics and developmental pediatrics, pediatric complex care coordination, and understanding fetal alcohol spectrum disorders in the context of other cumulative adverse exposures.

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