Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- An appeal to doctors
- Traumatic decortication
- List of abbreviations
- 1 A syndrome in search of a name
- 2 Diagnosis
- 3 Epidemiology
- 4 Pathology of the brain damage
- 5 Prognosis for recovery and survival
- 6 Attitudes to the permanent vegetative state
- 7 Medical management
- 8 Ethical issues
- 9 Legal issues in the United States
- 10 Legal issues in Britain
- 11 Legal issues in other countries
- 12 Details of some landmark cases
- Epilogue
- Index
List of abbreviations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 December 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- An appeal to doctors
- Traumatic decortication
- List of abbreviations
- 1 A syndrome in search of a name
- 2 Diagnosis
- 3 Epidemiology
- 4 Pathology of the brain damage
- 5 Prognosis for recovery and survival
- 6 Attitudes to the permanent vegetative state
- 7 Medical management
- 8 Ethical issues
- 9 Legal issues in the United States
- 10 Legal issues in Britain
- 11 Legal issues in other countries
- 12 Details of some landmark cases
- Epilogue
- Index
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- The Vegetative StateMedical Facts, Ethical and Legal Dilemmas, pp. xivPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2002