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Rights Come to Mind

Brain Injury, Ethics, and the Struggle for Consciousness

  • Hardback
  • 250 pages
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 2.3 cm

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Through the sobering story of Maggie Worthen and her mother, Nancy, this book tells of one family's struggle with severe brain injury and how developments in neuroscience call for a reconsideration of what society owes patients at the edge of consciousness. Drawing upon over fifty in-depth family interviews, the history of severe brain injury from Quinlan to Schiavo, and his participation in landmark clinical trials, such as the first use of deep brain stimulation in the minimally conscious state, Joseph J. Fins captures the paradox of medical and societal neglect even as advances in neuroscience suggest new ways to mend the broken brain. Responding to the dire care provided to these marginalized patients, after heroically being saved, Fins places society's obligations to patients with severe injury within the historical legacy of the civil and disability rights movements, offering a stirring synthesis of public policy and physician advocacy.
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  • Author

    Joseph J. Fins

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Cambridge University Press

  • Published

    August 2015

  • Weight

    681g

  • Page Count

    250

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 2.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9780521887502

  • ISBN-10

    052188750X

  • Eden Code

    4575611

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