TY  - BOOK
AU  - Johnson,L.Syd M.
TI  - The ethics of uncertainty: entangled ethical and epistemic risks in disorders of consciousness 
T2  - Oxford medicine online
SN  - 9780190943653 (ebook) :
AV  - R724 
U1  - 174.2 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - New York, NY
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Medical ethics
KW  - Loss of consciousness
KW  - Uncertainty
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Decision making
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
N1  - Also issued in print: 2021; Includes bibliographical references and index
N2  - Disorders of consciousness (DoCs) raise difficult and complex questions about the value of life for persons with impaired consciousness, the rights of persons unable to make medical decisions, and our social, medical, and ethical obligations to patients whose personhood has frequently been challenged and neglected. Recent neuroscientific discoveries have led to enhanced understanding of the heterogeneity of these disorders and patients, and focused renewed attention on the disturbingly high rate of misdiagnosis. This book examines the entanglement of epistemic and ethical uncertainty in DoCs and other medical contexts, and how they interact to create both epistemic and ethical risks
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190943646.001.0001
ER  -