Being conscious of their burden: severe brain injury and the two cultures challenge

Writing 50 years after the publication of C. P. Snow's Two Cultures and The Scientific Revolution, this paper considers the many cultures that have to intersect to sustain and deepen the advances in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with disorders of consciousness. To bridge this "tw...

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Published in:Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 2009-03, Vol.1157 (1), p.131-147
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Brain Injuries - complications
Consciousness Disorders - diagnosis
Consciousness Disorders - etiology
Consciousness Disorders - therapy
Cultural Characteristics
Ethics, Medical - history
History, 20th Century
History, 21st Century
Humans
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