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100 1 _aSinnott-Armstrong, Walter
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245 1 0 _aFinding Consciousness
_bThe Neuroscience, Ethics, and Law of Severe Brain Damage
260 _aOxford
_bOxford University Press
_c2016
300 _a1 online resource
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aOxford Series in Neuroscience, Law & Philosophy
506 0 _aFree-to-read
_fUnrestricted online access
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520 _aModern 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 far-reaching implications for treatment and prognosis. To alleviate this problem, neuroscientists have recently developed new brain-scanning methods for detecting consciousness in some of these patients and even for asking them questions, including "Do you want to stay alive?" These new technological abilities raise many questions about what exactly these methods reveal (Is it really consciousness?), how reliable they are (Do they fail to detect consciousness in some patients who are conscious?), what these patients' lives are like (Do they feel pain?), what we should do for and to these patients (Should we let them die?), who should decide (Are these patients competent to decide for themselves?), and which policies should governments and hospitals enact (Which kinds of treatment should be made available?). All of these questions and more are addressed in this collection of original papers. 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. This collection should interest not only academics but anyone who might suffer brain damage, which includes us all.
540 _aOpen licence
_0https://oapen.org/article/rights
546 _aeng
650 0 _aBrain damage.
650 0 _aBrain
_xWounds and injuries.
650 0 _aLoss of consciousness.
650 0 _aNeurosciences
_xLaw and legislation.
650 0 _aNeurosciences
_xMoral and ethical aspects.
650 2 _aBrain Injuries
650 2 _aUnconsciousness
650 6 _aCerveau
_xLésions et blessures.
650 6 _aNeurosciences
_xAspect moral.
650 6 _aPerte de conscience.
650 7 _aBiology, life sciences
_2thema
650 7 _aBrain damage
_2fast
650 7 _aBrain
_xWounds and injuries
_2fast
650 7 _aLife sciences: general issues
_2thema
650 7 _aLoss of consciousness
_2fast
650 7 _aMathematics and Science
_2thema
650 7 _aMEDICAL
_xSurgery
_xGeneral.
_2bisacsh
650 7 _aNeurosciences
_2thema
650 7 _aNeurosciences
_xLaw and legislation
_2fast
650 7 _aNeurosciences
_xMoral and ethical aspects
_2fast
650 1 2 _aConsciousness Disorders
650 2 2 _aBrain Damage, Chronic
650 2 2 _aNeurosciences
_xethics
650 2 2 _aNeurosciences
_xlegislation & jurisprudence
653 _abrain damage
653 _aconsciousness
653 _adeath
653 _adisability
653 _aethics
653 _afMRI
653 _aminimally conscious state
653 _aneuroscience
653 _apain
653 _avegetative state
700 1 _aSinnott-Armstrong, Walter
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793 0 _aOAPEN Library.
856 4 0 _uhttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/47840
_zFree-to-read: OAPEN Library/DOAB: description of the publication
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