TY  - CHAP
AB  - Neuroscience, with its promise to peer into the brain and explain the sources of human behavior and human consciousness, has captured the scientific, clinical, and public imaginations. Among those in the thrall of neuroscience are a group of ethicists who are carving out a new subspecialty within the field of bioethics: neuroethics. Neuroethics has taken as its task the policing of neuroscience. By virtue of its very existence, neuroethics presents a threat to its parent field bioethics. In its struggle to maintain authority as the guardian of neuroscience, neuroethics must respond to criticisms from bioethicists who see no need for the subspecialty. We describe the social history of neuroethics and use that history to consider several issues of concern to social scientists, including the social contexts that generate ethical questions and shape the way those questions are framed and answered; strategies used by neuroethicists to secure a place in an occupational structure that includes life scientists and other ethics experts; and the impact of the field of neuroethics on both the work of neuroscience and public perceptions of the value and danger of the science of the brain.
VL  - 13
SN  - 978-1-84855-881-6, 978-1-84855-880-9/1057-6290
DO  - 10.1108/S1057-6290(2011)0000013017
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S1057-6290(2011)0000013017
AU  - Conrad Erin C.
AU  - De Vries Raymond
ED  - Martyn Pickersgill
ED  - Ira Van Keulen
PY  - 2011
Y1  - 2011/01/01
TI  - Field of Dreams: A Social History of Neuroethics
T2  - Sociological Reflections on the Neurosciences
T3  - Advances in Medical Sociology
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 299
EP  - 324
Y2  - 2024/04/26
ER  -