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Neuroethics: an agenda for neuroscience and society

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The last decades of the twentieth century saw the rise of modern genetics. Now, many regard the initial decades of the twenty-first century as an era that promises explosive growth in our knowledge of the brain. Just as ethical issues have been a part of discourse in genetics from the outset, we are now paying attention to ethics in neuroscience. But whereas the ethics of genetics was in many ways a new conversation, the philosophical discussion of mental function and behaviour is an ancient tradition that both informs and complicates the emerging field of neuroethics.

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Moreno, J. Neuroethics: an agenda for neuroscience and society. Nat Rev Neurosci 4, 149–153 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1038/nrn1031

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