Rights come to mind : brain injury, ethics, and the struggle for consciousness /

Rights come to mind : brain injury, ethics, and the struggle for consciousness /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Fins, Joseph, author.
Imprint:	New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Description:	xiv, 379 pages ; 24 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	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 -- psychology. Brain damage -- Patients -- Mental health. Brain damage -- Patients -- Rehabilitation.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10377528

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Varying Form of Title:	Brain injury, ethics, and the struggle for consciousness
ISBN:	9780521887502 052188750X 9780521715379 0521715377
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Standard no.:	40025200079

Table of 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.