Rehabilitation, Education, and the Integration of Individuals with Severe Brain Injury into Civil Society: Towards an Expanded Rights Agenda in Response to New Insights from Translational Neuroethics and Neuroscience.

Rehabilitation, Education, and the Integration of Individuals with Severe Brain Injury into Civil Society: Towards an Expanded Rights Agenda in Response to New Insights from Translational Neuroethics and Neuroscience.
Yale J Health Policy Law Ethics. Summer 2016;16(2):233-87
Authors: Wright MS, Fins JJ
Abstract
Many minimally conscious patients are segregated in nursing
homes, and are without access to rehabilitative technologies that could
help them reintegrate into their communities. In this Article, we argue that
persons in a minimally conscious state or who have the potential to
progress to such a state must be provided rehabilitative services instead of
being isolated in custodial care. The right to rehabilitative technologies
for the injured brain stems by analogy to the expectation of free public
education for children and adolescents, and also by statute under the
Americans with Disabilities Act and under Supreme Court jurisprudence,
namely the leading deinstitutionalization case, Olmstead v. L.C. ex rel.
Zimring.
PMID: 29756752 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

Source: Yale journal of health policy, law, and ethics - June 2, 2018 Category: Medical Law Tags: Yale J Health Policy Law Ethics Source Type: research