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Hardwired Behavior: What Neuroscience Reveals about Morality. By Laurence R. Tancredi. Cambridge University Press2005. Pp. 226. $28.99. ISBN: 0-521-86001-6.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 April 2015

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Copyright © Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University 2005

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1. Roskies, Adina, A Case Study of Neuroethics: The Nature of Moral Judgment, in Neuroethics: Defining the Issues in Theory, Practice, and Policy 18 (Illes, Judy ed., Oxford U. Press 2006)Google Scholar.

2. Texas mother Andrea Yates, who suffered from psychotic hallucinations and delusions, drowned her five children in a bathtub in 2001. South Carolina mother Susan Smith rolled her Mazda—and her two children—into a lake in an attempt to secure the affection of her lover in 1995.

3. See e.g. Phelps, Elizabeth A. & Thomas, Laura A., Race, Behavior, and the Brain: The Role of Neuroimaging in Understanding Complex Social Behaviors, 24 Political Psychol. 747, 754 (2003)CrossRefGoogle Scholar (“Showing a behavior ‘in the brain’ does not mean that it is innate, ‘hardwired,’ or unchangeable.”).