Searching Minds by Scanning Brains

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vi

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2. Introduction

   • Marc Jonathan Blitz

   Pages 1-9

3. Constitutional Puzzles and (Neuro) Technological Changes

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   Pages 11-43

4. Lie Detection, Mind Reading, and Brain Reading

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   Pages 45-58

5. The Fifth Amendment: Self-Incrimination and the Brain

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   Pages 59-79

6. The Fourth (and First) Amendment:Searches with, and Scrutiny of, Neuroimaging

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   Pages 81-123

7. Conclusion

   • Marc Jonathan Blitz

   Pages 125-127

8. Back Matter

   Pages 129-144

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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. 

• Neuroscience
• Neuroscience Technology
• Constitutional Privacy
• Law and Human Behavior
• Privacy Law
• Fourth Amendment
• First Amendment
• Legal Ethics
• Emerging Technologies

“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)

• Oklahoma City University School of Law, Oklahoma City, USA

  Marc Jonathan Blitz

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.

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