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The post-traumatic vegetative state
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      Edited by Giuliano Dolce G and Leon Sazbon. Published by Thieme, Stuttgart, 2002, pp 158, €39.95. ISBN 1-58890-116-5

      This study of the vegetative state (VS), substantially written by Dolce and Sazbon with contributions from a number of colleagues, offers an interesting Mediterranean contrast to Brian Jennett’s recent survey of the condition that he and Fred Plum christened in 1972 (

      Jennett B. The vegetative state. Cambridge University Press, 2002

      ).

      There is broad agreement on several key points: the clinical definition of the disorder; the prognostic …

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