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Rights come to mind : brain injury, ethics, and the struggle for consciousness / Joseph J. Fins

By: Fins, Joseph [author].
Publisher: New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2015Description: xiv, 379 pages ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780521887502; 9780521715379.Other title: Brain injury, ethics, and the struggle for consciousness.Subject(s): Brain damage -- Patients -- Mental health | Brain damage -- Patients -- Rehabilitation | Brain damage -- Moral and ethical aspects | Brain Injury, Chronic -- psychology | Brain Injury, Chronic -- rehabilitation | Patient Rights -- ethics | Unconsciousness -- psychologyGenre/Form: Print books.DDC classification: 617.4/81044
Contents:
Decisions -- The injury -- Coming to terms with brain injury -- The origins of the vegetative state -- A shift since Quinlan -- Maggie's wishes -- Something happened in Arkansas -- From PVS to MCS -- Leaving the hospital -- Heather's story -- Neuroimaging and neuroscience in the public mind -- Contractures and contradictions : medical necessity and the injured brain -- Minds, monuments, and moments -- Heads and hearts, toil and tears -- What do families want? -- Deep brain stimulation in MCS -- Mending our brains, minding our ethics -- It's still freedom -- Maggie's in town -- When consciousness becomes prosthetic -- The rights of mind -- A call for advocacy
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Includes bibliographical references and index

Decisions -- The injury -- Coming to terms with brain injury -- The origins of the vegetative state -- A shift since Quinlan -- Maggie's wishes -- Something happened in Arkansas -- From PVS to MCS -- Leaving the hospital -- Heather's story -- Neuroimaging and neuroscience in the public mind -- Contractures and contradictions : medical necessity and the injured brain -- Minds, monuments, and moments -- Heads and hearts, toil and tears -- What do families want? -- Deep brain stimulation in MCS -- Mending our brains, minding our ethics -- It's still freedom -- Maggie's in town -- When consciousness becomes prosthetic -- The rights of mind -- A call for advocacy

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