To remember, or not to remember? Potential impact of memory modification on narrative identity, personal agency, mental health, and well-being
Memory modification technologies (MMTs)—interventions within the memory affecting its functions and contents in specific ways—raise great therapeutic hopes but also great fears. Ethicists have expressed concerns that developing and using MMTs may endanger the very fabric of who we are—our personal i...
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2021
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Bioethics
Year: 2021, Volume: 35, Issue: 9, Pages: 891-899 |
RelBib Classification: | NBE Anthropology NCH Medical ethics NCJ Ethics of science ZD Psychology |
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Personal Growth
B Well-being B propranolol B personal agency B optogenetics B Narrative Identity B Mental Health B memory modification technologies (MMTs) B Personal Identity |
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