The Future of the Brain: The Promise and Perils of Tomorrow's Neuroscience
de Rose, Steven
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- very good
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0195154207
- ISBN 13
- 9780195154207
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Johnson City, Tennessee, United States
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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...
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- 191645
- Título
- The Future of the Brain: The Promise and Perils of Tomorrow's Neuroscience
- Autor
- Rose, Steven
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0195154207
- ISBN 13
- 9780195154207
- Editorial
- Oxford University Press
- Lugar de publicación
- Ny
- Fecha de publicación
- 2005-04-01
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Medicine: General;
- X weight
- 22 oz
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