Brain Ethics Comes to the Nation's Capital
This Thursday and Friday, November 13th and 14th, the Neuroethics Society will meet in Washington DC at the AAAS Headquarters.
According to Martha Farah, Communications and Membership Director of the Society, in 2005 it occurred to a number of ethics and neuroscience types that the occasional meeting or special issue of a journal was not enough to sustain the perennial issues that were beginning to arise out of neuroscience research and clinical neuroscience practice.
Those first visionaries who met in 2005 to imagine a future Neuroethics Society became the Executive Committee and planned to have the first annual meeting in 2008.
Well, folks, that meeting is now here, starting today in Washington and will host approximately 400 members of the society who love to just talk about brains and the ethical issues they raise. The Society is supported by the Dana Foundation and the Greenwall Foundation and we are proud to announce that AJOB-Neuroscience is now the official journal of the Society.
So all of you who love to image brains, slice them, put brains in vats, or anything else related to neurons in any place or time, check out the Neuroethics Society and stay tuned for developments regarding their annual meeting and the Society itself.
Summer Johnson, PhD
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The first standalone meeting of the Neuroethics Society was a smashing success, IMHO.
Thos
- by Thomas Cochrane on Nov 17, 2008 at 4:45 PM | link