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Bioethics Lecture
7/28/04 - 4:00 PM - Lillie Auditorium
"Bioethics, neuroethics, and neuroscience: A guide for the perplexed"
Martha Farah, PhD., Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania
Sponsored by Drs. Gerald and Ruth Fischbach
Recent advances in neuroscience have put extraordinary new technologies within reach, including ever more sensitive neuroimaging and ever more selective psychopharmaceuticals. The effects of these developments have already begun to be felt beyond the lab and clinic. Issues of privacy and freedom arise when we monitor and manipulate the brain. The ideas of neuroscience, as well as the methods, are also increasingly affecting society’s understanding of responsibility, selfhood and spirituality. While admitting to feeling some perplexity myself in the face of these many profound and varied issues, I will attempt to identify some of the key questions facing the field and suggest approaches to analyzing them.
Martha Julia Farah, Ph.D. is a professor of Psychology at The University of Pennsylvania, is the Director of their Center for Cognitive Neuroscience, and is the author of numerous books and articles on the subjects of neuropsychology, behavioral neurobiology, and cognitive neuroscience. She received her undergraduate degree from The Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and her doctorate from Harvard University. Dr. Farah has also worked as a Professor at The Carnegie Mellon University, and as a Visiting Scientist at the Insitut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale in Lyon, France. Among her many honors, Dr. Farah has received the 1983 Keenan Award for Innovative Teaching from Harvard University, the 1992 Distinguished Scientific Award for an Early Career Contribution from the American Psychological Association, and the 1992 Troland Award from the National Academy of Sciences. She was awarded the John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in 1995, and the Cognitive Science Society Fellowship in 2002. Dr. Farah has been a Special Issue Editor of Current Opinion in Neurobiology and Developmental Science and has also been a member of the editorial boards of several noted psychology journals.
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