Wiki Page, Test Course: Week 10: Persistent vegetative state: on being human/Consciousness, personhood and death

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Persistent vegetative state: on being human Prof Max Bennett. Distinguish forms of consciousness and how these pertain to the legal rights of a person.

Owen AM, Coleman MR, Boly M, Davis MH, Laureys S, Pickard JD. (2006) Detecting awareness in the vegetative state. Science 313(5792):1402.

Consciousness, personhood and death Prof Ian Kerridge. In this tutorial we discuss the significance of these concepts and their ethical implications.

Fuchs T. (2006) Ethical issues in neuroscience. Curr Opin Psychiatry. 2006 Nov;19(6):600-7.

Veatch RM. (2005) The death of whole-brain death: the plague of the disaggregators, somaticists, and mentalists J Med Philos. 2005 Aug;30(4):353-78