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...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Corporate Author: | |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands,
2005.
|
| Series: | International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine,
23 |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
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
- Continuing Unresponsiveness in the Future.
