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AbstractThis article examines children's discourse about self, brain and behaviour, focusing on the dynamics of power, knowledge and responsibility articulated by children. The empirical data discussed in this article are drawn from the study of Voices on Identity, Childhood, Ethics and Stimulants, which included interviews with 151 US and UK children, a subset of whom had a diagnosis of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Despite their contact with psychiatric explanations and psychotropic drugs for their behaviour, children's discursive engagements with the brain show significant evidence of agency and negotiated responsibility. These engagements suggest the limitations of current concepts that describe a collapse of the self into the brain in an age of neurocentrism. Empirical investigation is needed in order to develop agent‐centred conceptual and theoretical frameworks that describe and evaluate the harms and benefits of treating children with psychotropic drugs and other brain‐based technologies.

Front Cover -- Global Mental Health and Neuroethics -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword -- 1 Introduction -- Section A: Conceptual issues -- 2 Moving beyond scientism and skepticism -- Introduction -- Global mental health and neuroethics -- What is psychiatric disorder? -- What causes mental illness? -- Interventions for mental disorders and well-being -- Conclusion -- References -- 3 Finding a word for it: An ordinary language philosophical perspective on the role of values-based practice as a partner ... -- Values-based practice and ordinary language philosophy -- A forced choice exercise -- An overview of values-based practice -- Roots of values-based practice in ordinary language philosophy -- Values-based practice in bodily health -- Mrs. Jones' Knee -- Values-based practice in mental health -- Simon the seer -- Values in Simon's story -- Values in psychiatric diagnosis -- Third interpretation: Visible values = diverse values -- Fact-plus-value: A conceptual framework for global mental health and neuroethics -- A fact-plus-value medical model -- Challenges of reconciliation -- Challenges of demarcation -- Values-based practice: A practical resource for global mental health and neuroethics -- Challenges of social inclusion and empowerment -- Challenges arising from the social determinants of disease -- Challenges of neuroethics exemplified in individual and global enhancement -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgment -- References -- Further reading -- 4 Welfarist psychiatry goes global -- Introduction -- Welfarist psychiatry -- Welfarist responses to global mental health challenges -- Inadequacy of the Western psychiatric model -- Neo-colonialism -- Avoiding prejudicial and harmful forms of psychiatry globally -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References.

Many decisions in law and elsewhere depend on predictions of crimes and mental illnesses. Can biology make these predictions more accurate? Do we want our government to use biology in this way? These questions and more are discussed in this volume by prominent scientists, ethicists, and legal scholars