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A neuroscientist reveals his work with patients believed to be brain dead to explain how up to twenty percent of them were still consciously alive, sharing insights into what life may be like for such patients and its moral implications.
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Persistent vegetative state, Patients, Brain damage, Moral and ethical aspects, New York Times reviewed, Brain damage -- Patients, Persistent vegetative state -- Moral and ethical aspects, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Medical, MEDICAL / Neuroscience, SCIENCE / Cognitive Science, Chronic Brain DamageEdition | Availability |
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Into the gray zone: a neuroscientist explores the border between life and death
2017, Scribner
in English
- First Scribner hardcover edition.
1501135201 9781501135200
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Table of Contents
The ghost that haunts me
First contact
The unit
Half-life
Scaffolds of consciousness
Psychobabble
The world as will
Tennis, anyone?
Yes and no
Are you in pain?
Live or let die?
Alfred Hitchcock presents
Back from the dead
Take me home
Reading minds.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-281) and index.
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