Acknowledging awareness: informing families of individual research results for patients in the vegetative state
Recent findings in cognitive neuroscience have revealed that some patients previously diagnosed as being in a vegetative state may retain some degree of covert awareness. However, it is unclear whether such findings should be disclosed to the families of these patients. Concerns about the preservati...
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Language: | English |
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BMJ Publ.
2015
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Journal of medical ethics
Year: 2015, Volume: 41, Issue: 7, Pages: 534-538 |
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