Identity Theft, Deep Brain Stimulation, and the Primacy of Post-trial Obligations
Patient narratives from two investigational deep brain stimulation trials for traumatic brain injury and obsessive-compulsive disorder reveal that injury and illness rob individuals of personal identity and that neuromodulation can restore it. The early success of these interventions makes a compell...
Published in: | The Hastings Center report |
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Wiley
2024
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The Hastings Center report
Year: 2024, Volume: 54, Issue: 1, Pages: 34-41 |
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Traumatic Brain Injury
B obsessive-compulsive disorder B disability rights B Identity Theft B research ethics B deep brain stimulation B Personal Identity |
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Summary: | Patient narratives from two investigational deep brain stimulation trials for traumatic brain injury and obsessive-compulsive disorder reveal that injury and illness rob individuals of personal identity and that neuromodulation can restore it. The early success of these interventions makes a compelling case for continued post-trial access to these technologies. Given the centrality of personal identity to respect for persons, a failure to provide continued access can be understood to represent a metaphorical identity theft. Such a loss recapitulates the pain of an individual's initial injury or illness and becomes especially tragic because it could be prevented by robust policy. A failure to fulfill this normative obligation constitutes a breach of disability law, which would view post-trial access as a means to achieve social reintegration through this neurotechnological accommodation. |
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ISSN: | 1552-146X |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Hastings Center, The Hastings Center report
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1002/hast.1567 |