S/T Cognitive Neuroscience

Ethical issues in the behavioral and neural sciences.  The more we understand about how the mind and brain work, the more we are able to monitor and control them.  This in turn, raises profound ethical questions about whether and when we SHOULD monitor or control them. Our class has two goals: To educate you about some of the more ethically loaded scientific developments (you will learn about behavior genetics, brain imaging, and psychopharmacology) and to help you formulate a view of whether and when such work should proceed (through reading and discussion of relevant literature in bioethics and history/sociology of science).