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Author Owen, Adrian M., author

Title Into the Gray Zone : A Neuroscientist Explores the Border Between Life and Death / Adrian Owen

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 Bangor Pub. Lib. Stacks  616.849.O973i    AVAILABLE  
Edition First Scribner hardcover edition
Phys Descr xi, 304 pages ; 24 cm
Note BPL: Norman Minsky Fund.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-281) and index
Text in English
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
Summary 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
Subject Persistent vegetative state
Brain damage -- Patients
Persistent vegetative state -- Moral and ethical aspects
OCLC # 961010756
ISBN # 1501135201
9781501135200