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Finding consciousness : the neuroscience, ethics, and law of severe brain damage / edited by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter, 1955- Editor.
- Series:
- Series in neuroscience, law, and philosophy.
- Oxford series in neuroscience, law, and philosophy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Brain damage.
- Neurosciences.
- Ethics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (281 p.)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The prominent contributors provide background information, survey the issues and positions, and take controversial stands from a wide variety of perspectives, including neuroscience and neurology, law and policy, and philosophy and ethics.
- Contents:
- Finding consciousness : an introduction / by Meghan Brayton and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
- Discussion with a caring father / by Ken Diviney and Katherine Grichnik
- The geography of unconsciousness : from apparent death to the minimally conscious state / by Jeffrey Baker
- Consciousness and death : the whole-brain formulation of death / by James L. Bernat
- Modes of consciousness / by Tim Bayne and Jakob Hohwy
- What is it like to be in a disorder of consciousness / by Caroline Schnakers
- Decoding thoughts in behaviorally non-responsive patients / by Adrian Owen and Lorina Naci
- Persistent vegetative state, akinetic mutism, and consciousness / by Will Davies and Neil Levy
- Lay attitudes to withdrawal of treatment in disorders of consciousness and their normative significance / by Jacob Gipson, Guy Kahane, and Julian Savulescu
- Moral conflict in the minimally conscious state / by Joshua Shepherd
- What's good for them? Best interests and severe disorders of consciousness / by Jennifer Hawkins
- Minimally conscious states and pain : a different approach to patient ethics / by Valerie Gray Hardcastle
- The legal circle of life / by Nita Farahany and Rachel Zacharias
- Guardianship and the injured brain : representation and the rights of patients and families / by Joseph Fins and Barbara Pohl.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-028032-8
- 0-19-028033-6
- 0-19-028031-X
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