Protecting the Mind: Challenges in Law, Neuroprotection, and Neurorights

This book explores the ethical, legal, and social implications of neurotechnology, discussing concepts such as mental privacy, autonomy, and responsibility and proposing solutions to protect privacy and promote equality.

Format: Hardback
Length: 177 pages
Publication date: 02 March 2022
Publisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG

This book delves into a comprehensive examination of the philosophical, social, ethical, and legal ramifications stemming from the advancements in neurosciences and neurotechnology. It begins by providing a foundational overview of fundamental concepts such as mental privacy, personal autonomy, mental integrity, and responsibility, among others. Subsequently, it explores the potential impact of misuses or uncontrolled applications of neurotechnology on these concepts, as well as on human rights and equality, in a broader context. To address the ethical, legal, and social challenges associated with the use of neurotechnology, the book presents original proposals. These proposals aim to address the core ethical, legal, and social issues arising from the integration of neurotechnology into medicine and everyday life, suggesting potential policies to safeguard privacy, neural data, and intimacy.

Spanning the boundaries between humanities, natural sciences, bio-medicine, and engineering, this book fosters a conceptual debate surrounding policy and decision-making concerning some of the most pressing neuroethical challenges of our time. It serves as a comprehensive guide to the most significant issues of neurojustice and neuroprotection, accompanied by a set of innovative paradigms to confront the most urgent neuroethical dilemmas of our era.

Weight: 453g
Dimension: 235 x 155 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783030940317
Edition number: 1st ed. 2022