Ethical Implications: Pain, Coma, and Related Disorders

Encyclopedia of Consciousness

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 243-250

  Schnakers, C ^a   Faymonville, M E ^b   Laureys, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Behavioral assessment; Brain injury; Coma; Consciousness; Ethic; Minimally conscious state; Neuroimaging; Pain; Treatment; Vegetative state

Indexed keywords

EID: 74449093337     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-012373873-8.00027-X     Document Type: Chapter

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