Divided Minds and Successive Selves: Ethical Issues in Disorders of Identity and Personality

by Jennifer Radden

If people change radically as a result of mental disturbance or brain damage or disease, how should we acknowledge that change in the way in which we respond to them? And how should society and the law acknowledge that change, particularly in cases of multiple-personality and manic-depressive disorders? This book addresses these and a cluster of other questions about changes in the self through time and about the moral attitudes we adopt in the face...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262181754
• ISBN13: 9780262181754
• Release Date: June 1996
• Publisher: Bradford Book
• Length: 325 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher