Research Catalog

Title

Life-sustaining treatments in vegetative state : scientific advances and ethical dilemmas / edited by Gian Luigi Gigli and Nathan D. Zasler.

Publication

Fairfax, VA : IOS Press, 2004.

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Details

Description

[271-] 404 pages; 27 cm.

Series Statement

NeuroRehabilitation, 1053-8135 ; 19, no. 4

Uniform Title

NeuroRehabilitation. 19, no. 4.

Alternative Title

NeuroRehabilitation : an interdisciplinary journal

Subjects

• Neurosciences
• Persistent Vegetative State
• Terminal care > Ethics
• Terminal Care
• Ethics, Medical
• Neurosciences > Moral and ethical aspects > Periodicals

Contents

Address of Pope John Paul II to the participants in the international congress on "life-sustaining treatments and vegetative state : scientific advances and ethical dilemmas", Saturday, 20 March 2004 -- Applying traditional Jewish law to PVS / E. N. Dorff -- Terminology in evolution : caveats, conundrums and controversies / N. D. Zasler -- The vegetative and minimally conscious states : consensus-based criteria for establishing diagnosis and prognosis / J. T. Giacino -- Medical decision making in the vegetative state : withdrawal of nutrition and hydration / K. Andrews -- Advance directives and living wills / L. Palazzani -- The withdrawal of nutrition and hydration in the vegetative state patient : societal dimension and issues at stake for the medical profession / G. L. Gigli and M. Valente -- How vegetative is the vegetative state? : preserved semantic processing in VS patients - evidence from N 400 event-related potentials / P. W. Schoenle and W. Witzke -- Functional neuroimaging in the vegetative state / S. Laureys -- A critical analysis of conceptual domains of the vegetative state : sorting fact from fancy / D. A. Shewmon -- Pediatric vegetative state : epidemiological and clinical issues / S. Ashwal -- Vegetative state and brain death : philosophical and ethical issues from a personalistic view / E. Sgreccia -- Economic aspects in prolonged life sustainable treatments / E. Borgonovi -- Catholic moral teaching, medically assisted nutrition and hydration and the vegetative state / K. T. McMahon -- Permanent vegetative state : usefulness and limits of a prognostic definition / C. J. Borthwick and R. Crossley -- The principle of proportionality in therapy : foundations and applications criteria / M. Callpari.

ISBN

1586034936

OCLC

• ocm60564098
• SCSB-5185304

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries