Conscious in a vegetative state? : a critique of the PVS concept /
Having been originally introduced as a term to facilitate discussion of a specific group of patients regarded as entering a state of unawareness following coma, the 'Persistent Vegetative State' (PVS) has established itself as an apparently discrete medical condition with clear-cut implica...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht ; London :
Kluwer Academic,
c2004
Dordrecht ; London : Kluwer Academic Publishers, ©2004 Dordrecht ; Boston : c2004 |
| Series: | International library of ethics, law, and the new medicine ;
v. 23 |
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Table of Contents:
- History and Context of the Persistent Vegetative State; The Pathological Basis of Vegetative States; Authoritative Statements; Consciousness; Sentience; Electrophysiological and Imaging Studies of Patients in Vegetative States; An Analogy between Anaesthesia and Persistent Vegetative State; Diagnosis and Misdiagnosis of Vegetative States; Emergence from a Vegetative State; A Perspective of Disability; Positive Management or an Exercise in Futility?; Thirst; Withdrawal of Hydration and Nutrition from Patients in Vegetative States; Some Economic Considerations; Vegetative States in Court