Walter Glannon is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Calgary, Canada. He has served as a clinical ethicist at three different hospitals and has held academic appointments at McGill University and the University of British Columbia. He is also the author or editor of ten books, including Free Will and the Brain: Neuroscientific, Philosophical, and Legal Perspectives (Cambridge, 2015).

• Introduction; 1. Memory systems and memory stages; 2. Agency, identity and dementia; 3. Anesthesia, amnesia and recall; 4. Disorders of memory content and interventions; 5. Disorders of memory capacity and interventions; 6. Legal issues involving memory; Epilogue. The future of memory.

'Walter Glannon achieves a rare balance: the book is clear and detailed about the neuroscience of memory and is also insightful about the legal and ethical challenges that scientific advances entail. This is a very timely and useful book.' Nick Davis, Manchester Metropolitan University

Walter Glannon is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Calgary, Canada. He has served as a clinical ethicist at three different hospitals and has held academic appointments at McGill University and the University of British Columbia. He is also the author or editor of ten books, including Free Will and the Brain: Neuroscientific, Philosophical, and Legal Perspectives (Cambridge, 2015).

• Introduction; 1. Memory systems and memory stages; 2. Agency, identity and dementia; 3. Anesthesia, amnesia and recall; 4. Disorders of memory content and interventions; 5. Disorders of memory capacity and interventions; 6. Legal issues involving memory; Epilogue. The future of memory.

'Walter Glannon achieves a rare balance: the book is clear and detailed about the neuroscience of memory and is also insightful about the legal and ethical challenges that scientific advances entail. This is a very timely and useful book.' Nick Davis, Manchester Metropolitan University

Walter Glannon is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Calgary, Canada. He has served as a clinical ethicist at three different hospitals and has held academic appointments at McGill University and the University of British Columbia. He is also the author or editor of ten books, including Free Will and the Brain: Neuroscientific, Philosophical, and Legal Perspectives (Cambridge, 2015).

• Introduction; 1. Memory systems and memory stages; 2. Agency, identity and dementia; 3. Anesthesia, amnesia and recall; 4. Disorders of memory content and interventions; 5. Disorders of memory capacity and interventions; 6. Legal issues involving memory; Epilogue. The future of memory.

'Walter Glannon achieves a rare balance: the book is clear and detailed about the neuroscience of memory and is also insightful about the legal and ethical challenges that scientific advances entail. This is a very timely and useful book.' Nick Davis, Manchester Metropolitan University