Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Note on drugs and abbreviations
- Section I Palliative Management
- Section II Major discomforts in advanced neurological illness
- Section III Major neurological conditions requiring palliation
- Section IV Ethical issues
- 1 Consent and decision-making
- 2 Advance directives
- 3 Proxy decision-making
- 4 Ethical issues in states of disordered consciousness
- 5 Terminal sedation
- 6 Euthanasia
- Section V Appendices
- Index
4 - Ethical issues in states of disordered consciousness
from Section IV - Ethical issues
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 January 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Foreword
- Note on drugs and abbreviations
- Section I Palliative Management
- Section II Major discomforts in advanced neurological illness
- Section III Major neurological conditions requiring palliation
- Section IV Ethical issues
- 1 Consent and decision-making
- 2 Advance directives
- 3 Proxy decision-making
- 4 Ethical issues in states of disordered consciousness
- 5 Terminal sedation
- 6 Euthanasia
- Section V Appendices
- Index
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- Palliative Neurology , pp. 209 - 217Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2005