Addiction Neuroethics
The Ethics of Addiction Neuroscience Research and Treatment
- 1st Edition - October 4, 2011
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Editors: Adrian Carter, Wayne Hall, Judy Illes
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 0 3 6 3 - 0
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 3 8 5 9 7 3 - 0
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 3 8 5 9 7 4 - 7
Research increasingly suggests that addiction has a genetic and neurobiological basis, but efforts to translate research into effective clinical treatments and social policy ne… Read more
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Request a sales quoteResearch increasingly suggests that addiction has a genetic and neurobiological basis, but efforts to translate research into effective clinical treatments and social policy needs to be informed by careful ethical analyses of the personal and social implications. Scientists and policy makers alike must consider possible unintended negative consequences of neuroscience research so that the promise of reducing the burden and incidence of addiction can be fully realized and new advances translated into clinically meaningful and effective treatments.
This volume brings together leading addiction researchers and practitioners with neuroethicists and social scientists to specifically discuss the ethical, philosophical, legal and social implications of neuroscience research of addiction, as well as its translation into effective, economical and appropriate policy and treatments. Chapters explore the history of ideas about addiction, the neuroscience of drug use and addiction, prevention and treatment of addiction, the moral implications of addiction neuroscience, legal issues and human rights, research ethics, and public policy.
- Features outstanding and truly international scholarship, with chapters written by leading experts in neuroscience, addiction medicine, psychology and more
- Informs psychologists of related research in neuroscience and vice versa, giving researchers easy one-stop access to knowledge outside their area of specialty
Researchers and graduate students in neuroscience and neuroethics/biomedical ethics; clinicians involved in the treatment of addiction disorders; addiction researchers from neuroscience and psychology
1. Brain Imaging in Addiction
2. Molecular Neuroscience and Genetics
3. Treating Opioid Dependence with Opioids
4. Addiction Neuroscience and Tobacco Control
5. Emerging Neurobiological Treatments of Addiction
6. Technical, Ethical and Social Issues in the Bioprediction of Addiction Liability and Treatment Response
7. Autonomy, Responsibility and the Oscillation of Preference
8. Consent and Coercion in Addiction Treatment
9. Toward a Lay Descriptive Account of Identity in Addiction Neuroethics
10. The Impact of Changes in Neuroscience and Research Ethics on the Intellectual History of Addiction Research
11. The Diction of Addiction at the Intersection of Law and Neuroscience
12. Social Epistemology
13. Population Approaches to Alcohol, Tobacco and Drugs
14. Legal Regulation of Addictive Substances and Addiction
15. Investment and Vested Interests in Neuroscience Research of Addiction
16. Private and Public Approaches to Addiction Treatment
- Edition: 1
- Published: October 4, 2011
- Imprint: Academic Press
- No. of pages: 346
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128103630
- Hardback ISBN: 9780123859730
- eBook ISBN: 9780123859747
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Adrian Carter
Affiliations and expertise
School of Psychological Science, University of Melbourne, Victoria, AustraliaWH
Wayne Hall
Affiliations and expertise
School of Population Health, University of Queensland, Herston, AustraliaJI
Judy Illes
Dr. Illes, trailblazing neuroethicist, is Professor of Neurology at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Distinguished University Scholar, UBC Distinguished Scholar in Neuroethics, and Director of Neuroethics Canada. She holds appointments in UBC’s School of Population and Public Health, and in Journalism, and in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, in Seattle. She is a pioneer of the field of neuroethics through which she has made groundbreaking contributions to cross-cultural ethical, legal, social and policy challenges at the intersection of the brain sciences and biomedical ethics.
Dr. Illes received her PhD in Hearing and Speech Sciences and in Neuropsychology from Stanford University in 1987, and turned to ethics in 2000, 25 years ago. She was among the first to use high density EEG recordings and pattern recognition to understand language processing in neurodegenerative disease, and was part of the revolution that functional MRI introduced. Together with others whose vision for ethics for neuroscience led from within the neurosciences, Dr. Illes has not only placed neuroethics on the world map of , but has tirelessly trained the generation that leads it today, and already those who will lead it tomorrow.
Dr. Illes has published 11 edited volumes, including three handbooks in neuroethics and as Editor in Chief of the series of volumes for Developments in Neuroethics and Bioethics. She has led major research projects and hundreds of publications on invasive and noninvasive technologies, fixed and portable imaging systems such as MRI, biologics, pharmaceuticals, and devices, open science and intellectual property protections. In 2023, she released an award-winning film on neurotechnology ethics and decision-making for children with drug resistant epilepsy. Dr. Illes has also contributed significantly to the Canadian landscape in understanding crosscultural perspectives on brain and mind, including those of Indigenous People. She has received countless awards and recognitions for her empirical work and her mentoring alike.
Dr. Illes places a particular emphasis on issues of ethics in neuroscience with attention to biomedicine, innovations that seek to alleviate the burden of psychiatric and neurologic disease, including spinal cord injury, both expected and unexpected incidental findings, holism, human rights and health disparities. With this open and broad perspective, she capably leads the seven-nation International Brain Initiative dedicated to global neuroscience that is inclusive and politically free.
Dr. Illes was awarded the Order of Canada, one of the country’s highest recognition of its citizens, in 2017.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, CanadaRead Addiction Neuroethics on ScienceDirect