Finding consciousness : the neuroscience, ethics, and law of severe brain damage First Edition Sinnott-Armstrong

1. Finding Consciousness: An Introduction

2. Discussion with a Caring Father

Part I: Consciousness

3. The Geography of Unconsciousness: From Apparent Death to the Minimally Conscious State

4. Consciousness and Death: The Whole-Brain Formulation of Death

5. Modes of Consciousness

Part II: Diagnosis

6. What Is It Like To Be in a Disorder of Consciousness?

7. Decoding Thoughts in Behaviorally Nonresponsive Patients

8. Persistent Vegetative State, Akinetic Mutism, and Consciousness

Part III: Ethics

9. Lay Attitudes to Withdrawal of Treatment in Disorders of Consciousness and Their Normative Significance

10. Moral Conflict in the Minimally Conscious State

11. What Is Good for Them? Best Interests and Severe Disorders of Consciousness

12. Minimally Conscious States and Pain: A Different Approach to Patient Ethics

Part IV: Law

13. The Legal Circle of Life

14. Guardianship and the Injured Brain: Representation and the Rights of Patients and Families