商品簡介
This collection of essays and studies interrogates ethical and legal issues surrounding vegetative states made possibly by modern medical technology. The essays are organized into four sections that build off one another, though the individual essays can stand alone. First they consider what the vegetative state is, what it's like to be in the vegetative state, what it's like to live with patients in the vegetative state and how society should deal with these patients, and a final section considers how decisions are to be reached. Some of the essays are scientific and focus on neurology, while others are almost ethnographic in their approach to those who live with vegetative patients. Many of the essays are concerned with legal decision making. The European authors come from a wide-range of backgrounds in bioethics, medicine, law, and therapy. Distributed in the US by ISBS. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
