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Title |
Into the Gray Zone : A Neuroscientist Explores the Border Between Life and Death / Adrian Owen |
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Edition |
First Scribner hardcover edition |
Phys Descr |
xi, 304 pages ; 24 cm |
Note |
BPL: Norman Minsky Fund. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-281) and index |
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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
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Brain damage -- Patients
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Persistent vegetative state -- Moral and ethical aspects
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OCLC # |
961010756 |
ISBN # |
1501135201 |
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9781501135200 |
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