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) |
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Format: | Electronic Book Chapter |
Language: | English |
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Oxford
Oxford University Press
2016
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Series: | Oxford Series in Neuroscience, Law & Philosophy
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