Neurotechnologies, Relational Autonomy, and Authenticity

International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 13 (1):98-119 (2020)
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Abstract

The ethical debate about neurotechnologies—including both drugs and implanted devices—has been largely framed around the questions of whether and when these technologies could damage or promote authenticity. Patients can experience changes in mood, behavior, emotion, or preferences—seemingly, changes in character or personality. Some describe such changes by saying they feel like different people; that they have become either more or less themselves; or that they feel as though some of their moods, behaviors, emotions or preferences are not their own. These kinds of statements are used to describe both changes that a drug or device is...

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Mary Jean Walker
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