Series editors: Dr. James Giordano, Dr. John Shook
Supported by funding efforts such as the United States’ Decade of the Brain (1990-2000) and current Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnologies (BRAIN) initiative, and the European Union’s Human Brain Project, neuroscience is forging new directions and resources to access and affect neurological structures and functions. These tools and techniques have enabled applications in medical fields of neurology, neurosurgery, psychiatry, rehabilitation, and pain care, both to treat disorders, and to modify cognition, emotions and behaviors. While such capabilities may be construed as beneficial, the discovery, development and use(s) of new devices, information and knowledge also incur ethical, legal and social issues; these are the focus of the relatively new, but ever more important, necessary and growing field of neuroethics.
This thematic series addresses the philosophical and ethical issues generated by progress in, and use of cutting-edge brain science in medicine. Herein, we conjoin prior and on-going work that focuses upon neuroethical concerns, and invite papers that provide and advance inquiry, insight, speculation and debate.
Philosophy, Ethics, and Humanities in Medicine are now seeking submissions of original research, in-depth reviews, opinions and debates offering novel insights into all aspects of brain science, philosophy, ethics and medicine. Please contact Dr James Giordano at philosethicshumanitmed@biomedcentral.com, for any presubmission enquires.
Editor profile:
Dr. John Shook is Research Associate in Philosophy and was a founding faculty member of the ‘Science and the Public’ graduate program at the University at Buffalo, NY. He is Lecturer in Philosophy at Bowie State University, Maryland, and his research areas include philosophy of science and technology, neurophilosophy, social neuroscience,moral psychology, ethical theory, and the science-religion dialogue. Among his books are Neuroscience, Neurophilosophy, and Pragmatism: Brains at Work with the World; American Philosophy and the Brain: Pragmatist Neurophilosophy, Old and New; The Future of Naturalism, and John Dewey’s Philosophy of Spirit.