Natasha Mitchell, host of the Australian radio program, "All in the Mind," has this excellent interview (link is to the transcript) with Judy Illes and Martha Farah on neuroethics. The interview is titled, "Neuroethics and the 21st Century Brain." It's hard not to love this opening quotation from Kierkegaard:
What a sensation stethoscopy caused! Soon we will have reached the point where every barber uses it; when he is shaving you, he will ask: 'Would you care to be stethoscoped sir?' Then someone else will invent an instrument for listening to the pulses of the brain. That will make a tremendous stir, until in 50 years’ time every barber can do it. Then, when one has had a haircut and shave and been stethescoped, for by now it will be quite common, the barber will ask, 'Perhaps sir, you would like me to listen to your brain pulses?'
– Kierkegaard, 1846.
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