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Personal Identity and Fractured Selves (eBook, ePUB)

Perspectives from Philosophy, Ethics, and Neuroscience

Redaktion: Mathews, Debra J. H.

Beschreibung

In this anthology, noted neurologists and philosophers explore the concept of personal identity and the ethics of treating brain disease and injury. When an individual's personality changes radically because of disease or injury, should this changed individual be treated as the same person? Personal Identity and Fractured Selvesexplores this important question from a variety of perspectives. Its contents represent the first formal collaboration between the Brain Sciences Institute and the Berman Institute of Bioethics, both at the Johns Hopkins University. Rapid advances in brain science are expanding knowledge of human memory, emotion, and cognition and pointing the way toward new approaches for the prevention and treatment of devastating illnesses and disabilities. Through case studies of Alzheimer disease, frontotemporal dementia, deep brain stimulation, and steroid psychosis, the contributors highlight relevant ethical and social concerns that clinicians, researchers, and ethicists are likely to encounter. Contributors: Samuel Barondes, M.D., University of California, San Francisco; David M. Blass, M.D., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; Patrick Duggan, A.B., Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics; Ruth R. Faden, Ph.D., M.P.H., Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics; Michael S. Gazzaniga, Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara; Guy M. McKhann, M.D., Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine; John Perry, Ph.D., Stanford University; Carol Rovane, Ph.D., Columbia University; Alan Regenberg, M.Be., Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics; Marya Schechtman, Ph.D., University of Illinois at Chicago; Maura Tumulty, Ph.D., Colgate University

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Autor

Debra J. H. Mathews, Ph.D., M.A., is the assistant director for science programs for the Berman Institute of Bioethics at Johns Hopkins University. Hilary Bok, Ph.D., is a professor of bioethics and moral and political theory at the Johns Hopkins University and a faculty member at the Berman Institute of Bioethics. She is author of Freedom and Responsibility. Peter V. Rabins, M.D., M.P.H., is a professor of psychiatry, codirector of the Division of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neuropsychiatry, and director of the T. Rowe and Eleanor Price Teaching Service of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. He is coauthor of The 36-Hour Day: A Family Guide to Caring for People with Alzheimer Disease, Other Dementias, and Memory Loss in Later Life and coeditor of Treating Dementia: Do We Have a Pill for It?, both published by Johns Hopkins.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780801895289
• Artikelnr.: 60987351