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Brain Injury and the Culture of Neglect: Musings on an Uncertain Future
- Social Research: An International Quarterly
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 78, Number 3, Fall 2011
- pp. 731-746
- 10.1353/sor.2011.0012
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Our essay will address both the right-to-die movement in America and the emerging culture of neglect in the treatment of a class of patients with disorders of consciousness with which the right-to-die movement is entwined. We trace the etiology of these two themes through changes in our scientific understanding of brain injury and recovery against a growing societal acculturation to dominion over one's self at life's end.