Into the gray zone
Subtitle: a neuroscientist explores the border between life and death
By: Adrian Owen
Edition: First Scribner hardcover edition.
Publisher: Scribner
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781501135200
Subjects: Persistent vegetative state; Patients; Brain damage; Moral and ethical aspects
Description: A neuroscientist reveals his work with patients believed to be brain dead to explain how up to twenty percent of them were still consciously alive, sharing insights into what life may be like for such patients and its moral implications.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-281) and index.
Table of contents: title: The ghost that haunts me; title: First contact; title: The unit; title: Half-life; title: Scaffolds of consciousness; title: Psychobabble; title: The world as will; title: Tennis, anyone?; title: Yes and no; title: Are you in pain?; title: Live or let die?; title: Alfred Hitchcock presents; title: Back from the dead; title: Take me home; title: Reading minds.