Personal Identity and Fractured Selves
. Ed(S): Mathews, Debra J.H.; Bok, Hilary; Rabins, Peter V.
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Description for Personal Identity and Fractured Selves
D., Colgate University Editor(s): Mathews, Debra J.H.; Bok, Hilary; Rabins, Peter V. Num Pages: 216 pages. BIC Classification: JMS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 238 x 166 x 17. Weight in Grams: 470.
This book brings together some of the best minds in neurology and philosophy to discuss the concept of personal identity and the moral dimensions of treating brain disease and injury. The contributors engage a crucial question: When an individual's personality changes radically because of disease or injury, should this changed individual be treated as the same person? 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, ... Read more
This book brings together some of the best minds in neurology and philosophy to discuss the concept of personal identity and the moral dimensions of treating brain disease and injury. The contributors engage a crucial question: When an individual's personality changes radically because of disease or injury, should this changed individual be treated as the same person? 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, ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Number of Pages
216
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801893384
SKU
V9780801893384
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About . Ed(S): Mathews, Debra J.H.; Bok, Hilary; Rabins, Peter V.
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Personal Identity and Fractured Selves
Personal Identity and Fractured Selves should appeal to both general and specialized audiences.
Emily Esch Metapsychology 2010 A good read.
John C. Racy Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 2010
Emily Esch Metapsychology 2010 A good read.
John C. Racy Journal of Clinical Psychiatry 2010