Rights come to mind: Brain injury, ethics, and the struggle for consciousness

Rights Come to Mind: Brain Injury, Ethics, and the Struggle for Consciousness

Volumn , Issue , 2015, Pages 1-379

  Fins, Joseph J ^a  

^a WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

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