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.