Finding Consciousness: The Neuroscience, Ethics, and Law of Severe Brain Damage

by Walter Sinnott-Armstrong

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 far-reaching implications for treatment and prognosis. To alleviate this problem, neuroscientists have recently developed new brain-scanning methods to...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190280301
• ISBN13: 9780190280307
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"