Searching Minds by Scanning Brains

Neuroscience Technology and Constitutional Privacy Protection

Marc Jonathan Blitz (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

VI, 144 Seiten

2017 | 1st ed. 2017
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-50003-4 (ISBN)

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This book examines the ethical and legal challenges presented by modern techniques of memory retrieval, especially within the context of potential use by the US government in courts of law. Specifically, Marc Blitz discusses the Fourth Amendment's protections against unreasonable searches and the Fifth Amendment's self-incrimination clause. He also argues that we should pay close attention to another constitutional provision that individuals generally don't think of as protecting their privacy: The First Amendment's freedom of speech. First Amendment values also protect our freedom of thought, and this-not simply our privacy-is what is at stake if government engaged in excessive monitoring of our minds.

Marc Jonathan Blitz is Alan Joseph Bennett Professor of Law at Oklahoma City University, USA, and series editor of Palgrave Studies in Law, Neuroscience, and Human Behavior.

1. Introduction.- 2. Constitutional Puzzles (and (Neuro)technological Changes.- 3. Lie Detection, Mind Reading, and Brain Reading.- 4. The Fifth Amendment: Self-Incrimination and the Brain.- 5. The Fourth (and First) Amendment.- 6. Conclusion.

"Searching Minds by Scanning Brains presents in-depth discussions of how the Fourth and Fifth Amendments have been used to make decisions about the constitutionality of brain scanning offered as evidence in criminal cases. ... This book could be a very helpful text for law students, not only because of the resources and format of the book but also because of Blitz's modeling of the disciplined logical and balanced thinking of an expert legal scholar." (Patricia E. Freed, PsycCRITIQUES, Vol. 62 (32), August, 2017)

Erscheinungsdatum	21.02.2017
Reihe/Serie	Palgrave Studies in Law, Neuroscience, and Human Behavior
Zusatzinfo	VI, 144 p.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
Schlagworte	Behavioral Science and Psychology • Constitutional Privacy • Criminal or forensic psychology • Emerging Technologies • First Amendment • Fourth Amendment • Law and Human Behavior • Law and psychology • Legal ethics • Neuroscience • Neuroscience Technology • Privacy Law • Psychology • Psychosocial Studies • Social, group or collective psychology
ISBN-10	3-319-50003-1 / 3319500031
ISBN-13	978-3-319-50003-4 / 9783319500034
Zustand	Neuware