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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2009

JOSEPH J. FINS
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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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Special Section: Open Forum
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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , January 2009 , pp. 7 - 13
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2009

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