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Brain, Vol. 125, No. 12, 2782, December 2002
© 2002 Oxford University Press

Book Review

THE VEGETATIVE STATE: MEDICAL FACTS, ETHICAL AND LEGAL DILEMMAS

R. S. Howard

National Hospital of Neurology and Neurosurgery, London, UK

THE VEGETATIVE STATE: MEDICAL FACTS, ETHICAL AND LEGAL DILEMMAS
By Bryan Jennett
2002. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
Price £29.92. ISBN 0521441587.

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It has been recognised for many years that, following severe brain injury, the awareness and cognitive responsiveness aspects of consciousness may be severely or totally impaired. Jennett and Plum described this as ‘the persistent vegetative state’ in 1972. Since the first paper, the vegetative state has increasingly been recognised because better techniques of resuscitation and supportive care of acute brain injuries have . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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