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Neuroscience, Neuroethics, and the Media

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Handbook of Neuroethics

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Contemporary neuroscience has become a poster child for medical sciences and has gained tremendous salience in the public eye. The growth of neuroscience has resulted in multiple developments, generating a flow of new research, allowing the exploration of new research domains beyond the traditional frontiers of medical science, and enticing the younger generations to train in neuroscience. At the same time, the public, in its plural manifestations, has become eager to engage with the advances of neuroscience. In this introduction to this section of the Handbook, I underscore and discuss briefly three aspects of the relationship between the media and neuroethics, which illustrate the importance of the media. I then introduce three original contributions dealing with the media and neuroethics. Hopefully, readers of this book will find these contributions stimulating and that the latter will encourage more needed work in this area.

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Acknowledgments

The author would like to thank Mr. John Aspler and Mrs. Allison Yan for feedback and assistance on a previous version of this manuscript. Support for the writing of this introduction comes from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (New Investigator Award) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

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  1. Neuroethics Research Unit, Institut de recherches cliniques de Montréal, 110 avenue des Pins Ouest, H2W lR7, Montréal, QC, Canada

    Eric Racine

  2. Department of Medicine and Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, Université de Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada

    Eric Racine

  3. Departments of Neurology and Neurosurgery, Experimental Medicine & Biomedical Ethics Unit, McGill University, Montréal, QC, Canada

    Eric Racine

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  1. Institute for Ethics and History of Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany

    Jens Clausen

  2. The Florey Institute of Neuroscience and Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia

    Neil Levy

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Racine, E. (2015). Neuroscience, Neuroethics, and the Media. In: Clausen, J., Levy, N. (eds) Handbook of Neuroethics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-4707-4_82

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