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Law, mind and brain

Freeman, Michael (Ed.)

Law, mind and brain edited by Michael Freeman and Oliver R. Goodenough. - England : Ashgate, 2009. - 416 p. - (Medical law and ethics) .

Table of contents:
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. Law, responsibility and the brain
Chapter 3. Brain imaging and courtroom evidence : on the admissibility and persuasiveness of MRI
Chapter 4. Mind the gap : problems of mind, body and brain in the criminal law
Chapter 5. Self-exclusion agreements : should we be free not to be free to ruin ourselves? : gambling, self-exclusion agreements and the brain
Chapter 6. The problems with blaming
Chapter 7. Why distinguish "mental" and "physical" illness in the law of involuntary treatment?
Chapter 8. A stable paradigm : revisiting capacity, vulnerability and the rights claims of adolescents after Roper v. Simmons
Chapter 9. Thinking like a child : legal implications of recent developments in brain research for juvenile offenders
Chapter 10. Legal implications of memory-dampening
Chapter 11. Reframing the good death : enhancing choice in dying, neuroscience, end-of-life research and the potential of psychedelics in palliative care
Chapter 12. Equality in exchange revisited : from an evolutionary (genetic and cultural) point of view
Chapter 13. Just (and efficient?) compensation for governmental expropriations
Chapter 14. Examining the biological bases of family law : lessons to be learned from the evolutionary analysis of law
Chapter 15. Why do good people steal intellectual property?
Chapter 16. Cues in the courtroom : when do they improve jurors' decisions?
Chapter 17. Reflections on reading : words and pictures and law
Index.

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Law--Psychological aspects.
Forensic psychology.

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