1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910704636203321

Titolo

Federal government approaches to issuing biometric IDs : hearing before the Subcommittee on Government Operations of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, House of Representatives, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, first session

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington : , : U.S. Government Printing Office, , 2013-

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (volumes)

Soggetti

Biometric identification cards - Government policy - United States

Transport workers - Identification - Government policy - United States

Harbors - Safety measures - Government policy - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from pt. 1 title screen (viewed on June 28, 2013).

"May 9, 2013"--Pt. [1].

"June 19, 2013"--Pt. 2.

Paper version available for sale by the Superintendent of Documents, U.S. Government Printing Office.

"Serial no. 113-25"--Pt. [1].

"Serial no. 113-37"--Pt. 2.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910813447203321

Autore

Feinberg Todd E. <1952->

Titolo

Altered egos [[electronic resource] ] : how the brain creates the self / / Todd E. Feinberg

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2002, c2001

ISBN

0-19-773458-8

1-280-83767-5

9786610837670

0-19-803119-X

Descrizione fisica

viii, 205 p. : ill

Disciplina

612.8/2

Soggetti

Neuropsychology

Brain

Self

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-192) and index.

Sommario/riassunto

In Altered Egos, Dr. Todd Feinberg presents a new theory of the self based on his first-hand experience as both a psychiatrist and neurologist. Feinberg introduces dozens of intriguing cases of patients whose disorders have resulted in what he calls altered egos: a change in the brain that transforms the boundaries of the self. He describes patients who suffer from alien hand syndrome where one hand might attack the patient's own throat, patients with frontal lobe damage who invent fantastic stories about their lives, paralyzed patients who reject and disown one of their limbs. He then argues that the brain damage suffered by these people has done more than simply impair certain functions--it has fragmented their sense of self. From these fascinating cases, Feinberg proposes a new model of the self that links the workings of the brain with unique and personal features of the mind, such as meaning, purpose, and being. Drawing on his own and other evidence, he explains how the unified self, while not located in one or another brain region, arises out of the staggering complexity and number of the brain's component parts. Lucid, insightful, filled with



fascinating case studies and provocative new ideas, Altered Egos promises to change the way we think about human consciousness and the creation and maintenance of human identity.