Bioethics Seminar

The ethics of minimally

conscious states
The Minimally Conscious States (MCS) is big news since it was discovered that
a woman assumed to be in deep coma could evince the brain activity of a
conscious person when taken on an imaginative journey through her home or
asked to play an imaginary tennis game. What is MCS and what is its
(neuro-)ethical significance in contemporary intensive care and head injury
settings? We can only answer these questions when we understand the
relationship between consciousness, the brain and ethics.

Grant Gillett
Bioethics Centre
University of Otago

Monday 22 March 2010

1 pm

9th floor Seminar Room

Dunedin Public Hospital
Students and staff all welcome