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  • Science and Free Will

    Neurophilosophical Controversies and What It Means to Be Human

    by Stephan Schleim ...
    Series series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    Free will is one of the most discussed topics in neuroscience, psychology and philosophy. Many even assume that our view of human nature and our social order are at stake. This book shows that the academic debate is often conducted under misleading assumptions: Practical freedom should not only be explored in quixotic laboratory experiments. Therefore, in the second part of Science and Free ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Mental Health and Enhancement

    Substance Use and Its Social Implications

    by Stephan Schleim ...
    Series series Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
    This book takes the reader from basic questions like “What is health?” and “What is a psychiatric disorder?”, into the midst of people’s present mental health and enhancement choices. More and more people receive psychiatric diagnoses and the use of psychopharmacological drugs keeps increasing. Concurrently, media report the popularity of “brain doping” or “study drugs” on campuses as well as at ... Read more

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  • Brain Development and the Law

    Neurolaw in Theory and Practice

    by Stephan Schleim ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This open access book is the first to offer a systematic overview of the different methods for assessing brain development and a comparative review of how such assessments have already influenced the law. Lawmakers prefer to draw clear distinctions, but biology is characterized by continua: both in terms of how development proceeds within a person and how it differs from other people. However, ... Read more

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  • Neuro

    The New Brain Sciences and the Management of the Mind

    by Nikolas Rose, Joelle M. Abi-Rached ...
    The brain sciences are influencing our understanding of human behavior as never before, from neuropsychiatry and neuroeconomics to neurotheology and neuroaesthetics. Many now believe that the brain is what makes us human, and it seems that neuroscientists are poised to become the new experts in the management of human conduct. Neuro describes the key developments--theoretical, technological, ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Introduction to Biosocial Medicine

    The Social, Psychological, and Biological Determinants of Human Behavior and Well-Being

    by Donald A. Barr ...
    Understanding human behavior is essential if medical students and doctors are to provide more effective health care.While 40 percent of premature deaths in the United States can be attributed to such dangerous behaviors as smoking, overeating, inactivity, and drug or alcohol use, medical education has generally failed to address how these behaviors are influenced by social forces. This new ... Read more

    $39.99 USD

  • The Autism Matrix

    by Gil Eyal ...
    Today autism has become highly visible. Once you begin to look for it, you realize it is everywhere. Why? We all know the answer or think we do: there is an autism epidemic. And if it is an epidemic, then we know what must be done: lots of money must be thrown at it, detection centers must be established and explanations sought, so that the number of new cases can be brought down and the epidemic ... Read more

    $25.00 USD

  • DSM

    A History of Psychiatry's Bible

    by Allan V. Horwitz ...
    The first comprehensive history of "psychiatry's bible"—the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.Over the past seventy years, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM, has evolved from a virtually unknown and little-used pamphlet to an imposing and comprehensive compendium of mental disorder. Its nearly 300 conditions have become the touchstones for the ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • Psychiatry

    Past, Present, and Prospect

    Edited by Sidney Bloch, Stephen A. Green, Jeremy Holmes ...
    Psychiatry: Past, Present, and Prospect brings together perspectives from a group of highly respected psychiatrists, each with decades of experience in clinical practice. The topics covered range from scientific discoveries of all kinds, advances in treatment, and conceptual breakthroughs. The highlights are countered by the field's negative sides: perennial indecisiveness about the boundaries of ... Read more

    $64.79 USD

  • Bias in Psychiatric Diagnosis

    Edited by Paula J. Caplan, Lisa Cosgrove ...
    The public has a right to know that when they go to a therapist, they are almost certain to be given a psychiatric diagnosis, no matter how mild or normal their problems might be. It is unlikely that they will be told that a diagnosis will be written forever in their chart and that alarming consequences can result solely from having any psychiatric diagnosis. It would be disturbing enough if ... Read more

    $55.09 USD

  • The Age of Melancholy

    "Major Depression" and its Social Origin

    by Dan G. Blazer ...
    Depression has become the most frequently diagnosed chronic mental illness, and is a disability encountered almost daily by mental health professionals of all trades. "Major Depression" is a medical disease, which some would argue has reached epidemic proportions in contemporary society, and it affects our bodies and brains just like any other disease. Why, this book asks, has the incidence of ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

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  • Oxford Handbook of Neuroethics

    Edited by Judy Illes, Barbara J. Sahakian ...
    Series series Oxford Library of Psychology
    The past two decades have seen unparalleled developments in our knowledge of the brain and mind. However, these advances have forced us to confront head-on some significant ethical issues regarding our application of this information in the real world- whether using brain images to establish guilt within a court of law, or developing drugs to enhance cognition. Historically, any consideration of ... Read more

    $103.99 USD

  • The Uncontrollability of the World

    by Hartmut Rosa ...
    Translated by James C. Wagner ...
    The driving cultural force of that form of life we call ‘modern’ is the desire to make the world controllable. Yet it is only in encountering the uncontrollable that we really experience the world – only then do we feel touched, moved and alive. A world that is fully known, in which everything has been planned and mastered, would be a dead world.Our lives are played out on the border between what ... Read more

    $18.00 USD