Holiday Brain Book Guide (Tovino)

The holidays are not going to be long enough for us to digest all of the new and exciting brain books out there!  Did you get Leslie Paul Thiele, The Heart of Judgment: Practical Wisdom, Neuroscience, and Narrative (Cambridge University Press, 2006)?  Neuroscience and narrative all in one -- it's too good to be true!  Don't forget to get your Thanksgiving copy of Jonathan Moreno, Mind Wars: Brain Research and National Defense (Dana Press, 2006).  In the meantime, check out Louis Cozolino, The Neuroscience of Human Relationships: Attachment and the Developing Social Brain (W.W. Norton, 2006), Charles A. Nelson et al., Neuroscience of Cognitive Development: The Role of Experience and the Developing Brain (Wiley, 2006), and Steven Laureys, The Boundaries of Consciousness: Neurobiology and Neuropathology (Elsevier, 2006).

Don't go overboard, though, because you're going to need some funds for the following exciting neurotitles due in 2007:  Neil Levy, Neuroethics: Challenges for the 21st Century (Cambridge University Press, 2007); Walter Glannon, Defining Right and Wrong in Brain Science:  Essential Readings in Neuroethics (Dana Press, 2007); B. Alan Wallace, Contemplative Science: Where Buddhism and Neuroscience Converge (Columbia University Press, 2007); and Eddie Harmon-Jones & Piotr Winkielman, Social Neuroscience: Integrating Biological and Psychological Explanations of Social Behavior (Guilford Press, 2007).

Are you just a few months behind in your brain buys?  Try Louann Brizendine, The Female Brain (Morgan Road Books, 2006); Shannon Moffett, The Three-Pound Enigma: The Human Brain and the Quest to Unlock its Mysteries (Algonquin Books, 2006); Nancy C. Andreasen, The Creating Brain: The Neuroscience of Genius (Dana Press, 2005); and John T. Cacioppo et al., Social Neuroscience: People Thinking about Thinking People (MIT Press, 2005).

If you're just beginning your neuroethics library, the following neurostaples are a must:  Steven J. Marcus, Neuroethics: Mapping the Field (Dana Press, 2002); Brent Garland, Neuroscience and the Law: Brain, Mind, and the Scales of Justice (Dana Press, 2004); Dais Rees and Steven Rose, The New Brain Sciences: Perils and Prospects (Cambridge University Press, 2004); Michael S. Gazzaniga, The Ethical Brain (Dana Press, 2005); Judy Illes, Neuroethics: Defining the Issues in Theory, Practice and Policy (Oxford University Press, 2005); and Sandra Ackerman, Hard Science, Hard Choices:  Facts, Ethics, and Policies Guiding Brain Science Today (Dana Press, 2006).

... and, in the 3 Lbs premier, did you catch the language mapping?  The brain probing?  The anonymous brain scanning?  And, the comment about how Jonathan (the neurosurgeon whose concern is the patient, not just the brain) should be off teaching medical ethics in the ivory tower?

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[NYK]

Hi,
Wish you all a very happy and prosperous new year 2009!!
Tia,

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