Treating consciousness with caution | Ken Mason

- (Guardian.co.uk) - 1 months ago...

We should be wary of building ethics around patients in permanent vegetative states, as this is a relatively new scienceProminent among the attitudes to the case that Professor McLean and I share is that it is easy to fall into the trap of making a premature judgment when confronted with a story of such potential ethico-legal significance. It raises issues that merit prolonged analysis not only as to its implications but also as to its factual basis. I would prefer, however, to treat the announc...