Rights Come to Mind: Brain Injury, Ethics, and the Struggle for Consciousness

by Joseph J. Fins

Book Overview

Through the sobering story of Maggie Worthen and her mother, Nancy, this book tells of one family's struggle with severe brain injury and how developments in neuroscience call for a reconsideration of what society owes patients at the edge of consciousness. Drawing upon over fifty in-depth family interviews, the history of severe brain injury from Quinlan to Schiavo, and his participation in landmark clinical trials, such as the first use of deep...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521715377
• ISBN13: 9780521715379
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 394 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"