Finding Consciousness : The Neuroscience, Ethics, and Law of Severe Brain Damage

Finding Consciousness : The Neuroscience, Ethics, and Law of Severe Brain Damage

Modern medicine enables us to keep many people alive after they have suffered severe brain damage and show no reliable outward signs of consciousness. Many such patients are misdiagnosed as being in a permanent vegetative state when they are actually in a minimally conscious state. This mistake has...

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Other Authors: Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter (Editor)
Format: Book Chapter
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2016
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Neurosciences
consciousness, vegetative state, minimally conscious state, death, disability, pain, brain damage, neuroscience, fMRI, ethics
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