04270namaa2200829uu 4500 oapen47840 oapen 20251217011855.0 a||||fo|||||||||0| cr|mn|---annan 240424s2016a||||fo|||||||||0|eng d 931873500 OCoLC 9780190280307 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190280307.001.0001 doi (OCoLC)931873500 oapen oapen eng dc P thema PS thema PSA thema PSAN thema Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter aut Finding Consciousness The Neuroscience, Ethics, and Law of Severe Brain Damage Oxford Oxford University Press 2016 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Oxford Series in Neuroscience, Law & Philosophy Free-to-read Unrestricted online access star 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 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. Open licence https://oapen.org/article/rights eng Brain damage. Brain Wounds and injuries. Loss of consciousness. Neurosciences Law and legislation. Neurosciences Moral and ethical aspects. Brain Injuries Unconsciousness Cerveau Lésions et blessures. Neurosciences Aspect moral. Perte de conscience. Biology, life sciences thema Brain damage fast Brain Wounds and injuries fast Life sciences: general issues thema Loss of consciousness fast Mathematics and Science thema MEDICAL Surgery General. bisacsh Neurosciences thema Neurosciences Law and legislation fast Neurosciences Moral and ethical aspects fast Consciousness Disorders Brain Damage, Chronic Neurosciences ethics Neurosciences legislation & jurisprudence brain damage consciousness death disability ethics fMRI minimally conscious state neuroscience pain vegetative state Sinnott-Armstrong, Walter edt OAPEN Library. https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/47840 Free-to-read: OAPEN Library/DOAB: description of the publication 0 37370 37370