Attitudes towards end-of-life decisions and the subjective concepts of consciousness: An empirical analysis

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Lotto, Lorella ^a   Manfrinati, Andrea ^a   Rigoni, Davide ^a   Rumiati, Rino ^a   Sartori, Giuseppe ^a   Birbaumer, Niels ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CONSCIOUSNESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; ETHICAL DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFE SUSTAINING TREATMENT; LOCKED IN SYNDROME; MALE; MINIMALLY CONSCIOUS STATE; MORALITY; PERCEPTION; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; RIGHT TO DIE; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL; ADOLESCENT; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS; LEGAL ASPECT; LONG TERM CARE; MEDICAL ETHICS; MENTAL CAPACITY; PATHOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; CONSCIOUSNESS; DECISION MAKING; ETHICS, MEDICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE SUPPORT CARE; MALE; MENTAL COMPETENCY; MORALS; PERSISTENT VEGETATIVE STATE; TERMINAL CARE; WITHHOLDING TREATMENT; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84857087533     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0031735     Document Type: Article

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