The Future of the Brain: The Promise and Perils of Tomorrow's Neuroscience Tapa blanda - 2006

Brain repair, smart pills, mind-reading machines--modern neuroscience promises to soon deliver a remarkable array of wonders as well as profound insight into the nature of the brain. But these exciting new breakthroughs, warns Steven Rose, will also raise troubling questions about what itmeans to be human. In The Future of the Brain, Rose explores just how far neuroscience may help us understand the human brain--including consciousness--and to what extent cutting edge technologies should have the power to mend or manipulate the mind. Rose first offers a panoramic look at what we now know aboutthe brain, from its three-billion-year evolution, to its astonishingly rapid development in the embryo, to the miraculous process of infant development (how a brain becomes a human). More important, he shows what all this science can--and cannot--tell us about the human condition...

Detalles

• Título The Future of the Brain: The Promise and Perils of Tomorrow's Neuroscience
• Autor Steven Rose
• Encuadernación Tapa blanda
• Edición New Ed
• Páginas 352
• Volúmenes 1
• Idioma ENG
• Editorial Oxford University Press, USA
• Fecha de publicación 2006-07-13
• Ilustrado Sí
• Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
• ISBN 9780195308938 / 019530893X
• Peso 1.1 libras (0.50 kg)
• Dimensiones 9.18 x 6.66 x 0.93 pulgadas (23.32 x 16.92 x 2.36 cm)
• Library of Congress subjects Brain - physiology, Thought and thinking
• Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 2009502249
• Dewey Decimal Code 153