Searching Minds by Scanning Brains Neuroscience Technology and Constitutional Privacy Protection /

• Main Author: Blitz, Marc Jonathan (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
• Series: Palgrave Studies in Law, Neuroscience, and Human Behavior
• Subjects: Psychology.; Law and Psychology.; Psychosocial Studies.

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 Fi...

Table of Contents:

• 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. .