Finding Consciousness

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