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: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107131979
• ISBN13: 9781107131972
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 242 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 9.2" x 6.2"