Joseph J. Fins’ Rights Come to Mind: Brain Injury, Ethics and the Struggle for Consciousness

The book reflects Fins’ role as co-director of the Consortium for the Advanced Study of Brain Injury at Weill Cornell Medicine and the Rockefeller University and his struggle to answer the kinds of questions that stand to shape how society treats people with brain injuries. What is the capacity of b...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Caplan, Arthur L
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Dana Foundation 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6132041/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30210658
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Sumario:The book reflects Fins’ role as co-director of the Consortium for the Advanced Study of Brain Injury at Weill Cornell Medicine and the Rockefeller University and his struggle to answer the kinds of questions that stand to shape how society treats people with brain injuries. What is the capacity of brains to recover? What are the mechanisms of that recovery? How do we know that our assessments are accurately describing what’s going on in a patient’s mind? And what does society morally owe these patients and families?

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