Lessons from the Injured Brain: A Bioethicist in the Vineyards of Neuroscience

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 18 (1):7 (2009)
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I would like to share some reflections on how bioethics fosters dialogue between the sciences and humanities by talking a bit about my work as a physician-ethicist collaborating with neuroscientists studying severe brain injury and mechanisms of recovery. If I am successful in this Pilgrim's Progress, I hope I will convince you that the injured brain can teach us much about ourselves. It is not something I was prepared to believe as a medical student, when I was more certain of things than I am now

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