Consciousness and Personhood in Medical Care

Current paradigms in Western medicine often fail to differentiate clearly between consciousness, responsiveness and personhood. The growing number of individuals who exist with sustainable cardiopulmonary systems but who are behaviorally unresponsive has prompted a cultural reconsideration of the re...

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Main Authors: Stefanie Blain-Moraes, Eric Racine, George A. Mashour
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-08-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnhum.2018.00306/full