Deep Brain Stimulation, Authenticity and Value
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Deep Brain Stimulation, Authenticity and Value
Deep brain stimulation has been of considerable interest to bioethicists, in large part because of the effects that the intervention can occasionally have on central features of the recipient's personality. These effects raise questions regarding the philosophical concept of authenticity. In this article, we expand on our earlier work on the concept of authenticity in the context of deep brain ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics
سال: 2017
ISSN: 0963-1801,1469-2147
DOI: 10.1017/s0963180117000159