Neurointerventions and the Law - Regulating Human Mental Capacity (Hardcover)

This volume makes a contribution to the field of neurolaw by investigating issues raised by the development, use, and regulation of neurointerventions. The broad range of topics covered in these chapters reflects neurolaw's growing social import, and its rapid expansion as an academic field of inquiry. Some authors investigate the criminal justice system's use of neurointerventions to make accused defendants fit for trial, to help reform convicted offenders, or to make condemned inmates sane enough for execution, while others interrogate the use, regulation, and social impact of cognitive enhancement medications and devices. Issues raised by neurointervention-based gay conversion "therapy", efficacy and safety of specific neurointervention methods, legitimacy of their use and regulation, and their implications for authenticity, identity, and responsibility are among the other topics investigated. Dwelling on neurointerventions also highlights tacit assumptions about human nature that have important implications for jurisprudence. For all we know, at present such things as people's capacity to feel pain, their sexuality, and the dictates of their conscience, are unalterable. But neurointerventions could hypothetically turn such constants into variables. The increasing malleability of human nature means that analytic jurisprudential claims (true in virtue of meanings of jurisprudential concepts) must be distinguished from synthetic jurisprudential claims (contingent on what humans are actually like). Looking at the law through the lens of neurointerventions thus also highlights the growing need for a new distinction - between analytic jurisprudence and synthetic jurisprudence - to tackle issues that increasingly malleable humans will face when they encounter novel opportunities and challenges.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Oxford Series in Neuroscience, Law, and Philosophy
Release date:	July 2020
Editors:	Nicole A. Vincent (Senior Lecturer in the Faculty of Transdisciplinary Innovation) • Thomas Nadelhoffer (Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department) • Allan McCay (Lecturer)
Dimensions:	238 x 163 x 31mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	464
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-065114-5
Categories:	Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Social law > General Promotions
LSN:	0-19-065114-8
Barcode:	9780190651145

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