Perception of Value and the Minimally Conscious StateHEC Forum - Tập 27 - Trang 265-286 - 2015
Stephen Napier
The “disability paradox” is the idea that for those who become severely disabled, their own quality of life (QoL) assessment remains at or slightly below the QoL assessments of normal controls. This is a source of skepticism regarding third-person QoL judgments of the disabled. I argue here that this skepticism applies as well to those who are in the minimally conscious state (MCS). For rather sim...... hiện toàn bộ
A Journal of the COVID-19 (Plague) YearHEC Forum - Tập 33 - Trang 1-6 - 2021
Brian H. Childs, Laura Vearrier
The essays in this special issue of HEC Forum provide reflections that make explicit the implicit anthropology that our current pandemic has brought but which in the medical ethics literature around COVID-19 has to a great extent ignored. Three of the essays are clearly “journalistic” as a literary genre: one by a hospital chaplain, one by a medical student in her pre-clinical years, and one by a ...... hiện toàn bộ