Learning from Law's Past: A Call for Caution in Incorporating New Innovations in Neuroscience

Date

2007

Authors

Bard, Jennifer S.

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Journal ISSN

Volume Title

Publisher

American Journal of Bioethics

Abstract

Under the umbrella of the burgeoning neurotransdisciplines, scholars are using the principles and research methodologies of their primary and secondary fields to examine developments in neuroimaging, neuromodulation and psychopharmacology. The path for advanced scholarship at the intersection of law and neuroscience may clear if work across the disciplines is collected and reviewed and outstanding and debated issues are identified and clarified. In this article, I organize, examine and refine a narrow class of the burgeoning neurotransdiscipline scholarship; that is, scholarship at the interface of law and functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

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Keywords

Technology, Reliability, Eyewitness testimony, Polygraph, DNA analysis, Handwriting analysis, Neuroimaging

Citation

7(9) Am. J. Bioethics 73