Finding consciousness : the neuroscience, ethics, and law of severe brain damage

Finding consciousness the neuroscience, ethics, and law of severe brain damage

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter, 1955- (Editor), Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter, 1955- editor (editor)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oxford Oxford University Press 2016
New York, NY : 2016.
Edición:First edition
Colección:Series in neuroscience, law, and philosophy.
Materias:
Brain damage.
Neurosciences.
Ethics.
consciousness, vegetative state, minimally conscious state, death, disability, pain, brain damage, neuroscience, fMRI, ethics
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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