Ethical Issues In The Abyss: Music And Amnesia
There are various things that can cause amnesia and there are also various types of amnesia. Two specific types of amnesia are retrograde—a loss of memory-access to information that was obtained before an injury or the onset of a disease—and anterograde amnesia—the loss of ability to create new memories. With these two types of amnesia life is very simple for Clive Wearing as he cannot remember anything after a couple of seconds (seven to thirty seconds).
Clive Wearing is a conductor, musicologist, tenor, British musician and keyboardist who was not only diagnosed with one type of amnesia but two. In March of 1985, doctors pin-pointed that Clive Wearing had a brain infection—herpes encephalitis—that affected regions in his brain where memory …show more content…
An article covered by Oliver Sacks ethical considerations were broken. The Abyss: Music and Amnesia, broke the ethical considerations of: confidentiality, consent, right to withdraw and protection of participants. By Sacks using Wearing’s name the ethical consideration of confidentiality was broken. In the world of Psychology, when doing a study ethical considerations have to be followed to ensure that the participant is safe and that nothing illegal is going to happen during the study. Sacks broke another consideration by doing a study on a man who is not able to give consent because he will not remember giving consent. In psychology, if a participant is under the age of 18 or adults who are incompetent of giving consent. Clive pertains to the section of being an incompetent adult. With Clive’s illness he has no clue that he is being documented. With no clue of him being documented, Clive would not able to withdraw from the study being done by Oliver Sacks. The consideration: protection of participant, was broken by personal information being released. Although, Wearing was not forced to release the information used, he had/has no knowing of his personal life being published. Clive Wearing could not mentally process anything that was happening around him or to him during the study.
The mental process of acquiring and processing knowledge and understanding through thought,
Clive Wearing is a conductor, musicologist, tenor, British musician and keyboardist who was not only diagnosed with one type of amnesia but two. In March of 1985, doctors pin-pointed that Clive Wearing had a brain infection—herpes encephalitis—that affected regions in his brain where memory …show more content…
An article covered by Oliver Sacks ethical considerations were broken. The Abyss: Music and Amnesia, broke the ethical considerations of: confidentiality, consent, right to withdraw and protection of participants. By Sacks using Wearing’s name the ethical consideration of confidentiality was broken. In the world of Psychology, when doing a study ethical considerations have to be followed to ensure that the participant is safe and that nothing illegal is going to happen during the study. Sacks broke another consideration by doing a study on a man who is not able to give consent because he will not remember giving consent. In psychology, if a participant is under the age of 18 or adults who are incompetent of giving consent. Clive pertains to the section of being an incompetent adult. With Clive’s illness he has no clue that he is being documented. With no clue of him being documented, Clive would not able to withdraw from the study being done by Oliver Sacks. The consideration: protection of participant, was broken by personal information being released. Although, Wearing was not forced to release the information used, he had/has no knowing of his personal life being published. Clive Wearing could not mentally process anything that was happening around him or to him during the study.
The mental process of acquiring and processing knowledge and understanding through thought,