Consciousness and Personhood in Medical Care
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience August 2, 2018 Stefanie Blain-Moraes, Eric Racine, George A. Mashour
Current paradigms in Western medicine often fail to differentiate clearly between consciousness, responsiveness and personhood. The growing number of individuals who exist with sustainable cardiopulmonary systems but who are behaviorally unresponsive has prompted a cultural reconsideration of the relationship between the presence of consciousness and what it means to be a person. This article...