Localizing the moral sense: medical science and the search for morality in the brain, 1800-1930

Due to the current revolution in brain research the search for the “moral brain became a serious endeavour. Nowadays, neural circuits that are indispensable for moral and social behaviour are discovered and the brains of psychopaths and criminals - the classical anti-heroes of morality - are scanned with curiosity, even enthusiasm. How revolutionary this current research might be, the quest for a localisable ethical centre or moral organ is far from new. The moral brain was a recurrent theme in the works of neuroscientists during the 19th and 20th century. From the phrenology era to the encephalitis pandemic in the 1920s a wide range of European and American scientists (neurologists, psychiatrists, anthropologists and criminologists) speculated about and discussed the location of a moral sense in the human cortex. First book on this topic Based on first-hand material (original medical publications in French, German, Italian and English) Well-written, depth and clarity

• ISBN: 978-1-4020-6321-3
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 290
• Fecha Publicación: 01/05/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés