The Neuroethics of Memory: From Total Recall to Oblivion

by Walter Glannon

The Neuroethics of Memory is a thematically integrated analysis and discussion of neuroethical questions about memory capacity and content, as well as interventions to alter it. These include: how does memory function enable agency, and how does memory dysfunction disable it? To what extent is identity based on our capacity to accurately recall the past? Could a person who becomes aware during surgery be harmed if they have no memory of the experience?...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107583411
• ISBN13: 9781107583412
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.9" x 6.3"