Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Miscellaneous Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Decisions
- 2 The Injury
- 3 Coming to Terms with Brain Injury
- 4 The Origins of the Vegetative State
- 5 A Shift since Quinlan
- 6 Maggie's Wishes
- 7 Something Happened in Arkansas
- 8 From PVS to MCS
- 9 Leaving the Hospital
- 10 Heather's Story
- 11 Neuroimaging and Neuroscience in the Public Mind
- 12 Contractures and Contradictions: Medical Necessity and the Injured Brain
- 13 Minds, Monuments, and Moments
- 14 Heads and Hearts, Toil and Tears
- 15 What Do Families Want?
- 16 Deep Brain Stimulation in MCS
- 17 Mending Our Brains, Minding Our Ethics
- 18 It's Still Freedom
- 19 Maggie Is in Town
- 20 When Consciousness Becomes Prosthetic
- 21 The Rights of Mind
- 22 A Call for Advocacy
- Epilogue
- Notes
- In Memoriam
- Index
Epigraph
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 September 2015
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Miscellaneous Frontmatter
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Decisions
- 2 The Injury
- 3 Coming to Terms with Brain Injury
- 4 The Origins of the Vegetative State
- 5 A Shift since Quinlan
- 6 Maggie's Wishes
- 7 Something Happened in Arkansas
- 8 From PVS to MCS
- 9 Leaving the Hospital
- 10 Heather's Story
- 11 Neuroimaging and Neuroscience in the Public Mind
- 12 Contractures and Contradictions: Medical Necessity and the Injured Brain
- 13 Minds, Monuments, and Moments
- 14 Heads and Hearts, Toil and Tears
- 15 What Do Families Want?
- 16 Deep Brain Stimulation in MCS
- 17 Mending Our Brains, Minding Our Ethics
- 18 It's Still Freedom
- 19 Maggie Is in Town
- 20 When Consciousness Becomes Prosthetic
- 21 The Rights of Mind
- 22 A Call for Advocacy
- Epilogue
- Notes
- In Memoriam
- Index
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- Rights Come to MindBrain Injury, Ethics, and the Struggle for Consciousness, pp. viPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015