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The Future of the Brain: The Promise and Perils of Tomorrow's Neuroscience Hard cover - 2005 - 1st Edition
by Rose, Steven
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- Title The Future of the Brain: The Promise and Perils of Tomorrow's Neuroscience
- Author Rose, Steven
- Binding Hard cover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition New
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, NY
- Date 2005
- Illustrated Yes
- Bookseller's Inventory # Alibris_0016896
- ISBN 9780195154207 / 0195154207
- Weight 1.39 lbs (0.63 kg)
- Dimensions 6.4 x 9.1 x 1.2 in (16.26 x 23.11 x 3.05 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Brain, Neurosciences
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004023578
- Dewey Decimal Code 153
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Summary
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...