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

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Oxford University Press USA (2016)
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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

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Persistent Vegetative State, Akinetic Mutism and Consciousness.  (pages 122-136)Will Davies & Neil Levy
Moral conflict in the minimally conscious state.  (pages 160-179)Joshua Shepherd
What’s Good for Them? Best Interests and Severe Disorders of Consciousness.  (pages 180-206)Jennifer Hawkins

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