Messing with the mind
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,12084,1434846,00.html
Steven Rose reveals some of the more unsavoury aspects of recent
research in The 21st Century Brain. John McCrone thinks we should be
worried
Saturday March 12, 2005
The Guardian
The 21st Century Brain: Explaining, Mending and Manipulating the Mind
by Steven Rose
256pp, Jonathan Cape, £20
Just why are we suddenly spending so much money on studying the brain?
Is science making its final push to crack the riddle of human
consciousness? Or is the answer rather more sinister?
In the 1960s, Yale University neuroscientist Jose Delgado stood in a
Spanish bullring clutching a radio transmitter in one hand, a toreador
cape in the other. The bull came charging. But Delgado had implanted a
set of electrodes in the centre of its brain. A single push of a button
brought the bull to a halt. A second saw it meekly turn and trot away.
Steven Rose
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