1 - Finding Consciousness: An Introduction
By Meghan Brayton and Walter Sinnott-Armstrong
2 - Discussion with a Caring Father
By Ken Diviney and Katherine Grichnik
PART I: Consciousness
3 - The Geography of Unconsciousness: From Apparent Death to the
Minimally Conscious State
By Jeffrey Baker
4 - Consciousness and Death: The Whole-Brain Formulation of
Death
By James L. Bernat
5 - Modes of Consciousness
By Tim Bayne and Jakob Hohwy
PART II: Diagnosis
6 - What is it like to be in a Disorder of Consciousness
By Caroline Schnakers
7 - Decoding Thoughts in Behaviorally Non-Responsive Patients
By Adrian Owen and Lorina Naci
8 - Persistent Vegetative State, Akinetic Mutism, and
Consciousness
By Will Davies and Neil Levy
PART III: Ethics
9 - Lay Attitudes to Withdrawal of Treatment in Disorders of
Consciousness and Their Normative Significance
By Jacob Gipson, Guy Kahane, and Julian Savulescu
10 - Moral Conflict in the Minimally Conscious State
By Joshua Shepherd
11 - What's Good for Them? Best Interests and Severe Disorders of
Consciousness
By Jennifer Hawkins
12 - Minimally Conscious States and Pain: A Different Approach to
Patient Ethics
By Valerie Gray Hardcastle
PART IV: Law
13 - The Legal Circle of Life
By Nita Farahany and Rachel Zacharias
14 - Guardianship and the Injured Brain: Representation and the
Rights of Patients and Families
By Joseph Fins and Barbara Pohl
References
Index
Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, PhD, is Chauncey Stillman Professor of
Practical Ethics at Duke University in the Philosophy Department,
the Kenan Institute for Ethics, the Center for Cognitive
Neuroscience, and the Law School. He has served as co-chair of the
Board of Officers of the American Philosophical Association and
co-director of the MacArthur Law and Neuroscience Project. He
publishes widely in ethics, moral psychology and neuroscience,
philosophy of law,
epistemology, informal logic, and philosophy of religion.
"You think people are either conscious or not? Think again. Walter
Sinnott-Armstrong takes us by the hand through a forest of clinical
exceptions and leaves us wondering what the very concept of
consciousness really means. It is a brilliant analysis and
collection of primary papers not to be missed because depending on
the answer, we will decide whether or not to freely pull the plug
on gramps." --Michael Gazzaniga, PhD, Director of the SAGE Center
for the
Study of Mind at the University of California, Santa Barbara
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