Rights Come to Mind Brain Injury Ethics and the Struggle for Consciousness 1st Edition by Fins Joseph J 9781316287422 1316287424

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• ISBN 10: 1316287424
• ISBN 13: 9781316287422
• Author: Fins Joseph J

Through the sobering story of Maggie Worthen and her mother, Nancy, this book tells of one family’s struggle with severe brain injury and how developments in neuroscience call for a reconsideration of what society owes patients at the edge of consciousness. Drawing upon over fifty in-depth family interviews, the history of severe brain injury from Quinlan to Schiavo, and his participation in landmark clinical trials, such as the first use of deep brain stimulation in the minimally conscious state, Joseph J. Fins captures the paradox of medical and societal neglect even as advances in neuroscience suggest new ways to mend the broken brain. Responding to the dire care provided to these marginalized patients, after heroically being saved, Fins places society’s obligations to patients with severe injury within the historical legacy of the civil and disability rights movements, offering a stirring synthesis of public policy and physician advocacy.

Table contents:

1 Decisions

2 The Injury

3 Coming to Terms with Brain Injury

4 The Origins of the Vegetative State

5 A Shift since Quinlan

6 Maggie’s Wishes

7 Something Happened in Arkansas

8 From PVS to MCS

9 Leaving the Hospital

10 Heather’s Story

11 Neuroimaging and Neuroscience in the Public Mind

12 Contractures and Contradictions

13 Minds, Monuments, and Moments

14 Heads and Hearts, Toil and Tears

15 What Do Families Want?

16 Deep Brain Stimulation in MCS

17 Mending Our Brains, Minding Our Ethics

18 It’s Still Freedom

19 Maggie Is in Town

20 When Consciousness Becomes Prosthetic

21 The Rights of Mind

22 A Call for Advocacy

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