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A postmodern framework is proposed for conceptualizing the impact of brain injury
on the subjective being of the injured person. Semiosis, the 'action of signs,'
is argued as necessary for this recovery of subjectivity that escapes the
mechanistic materialism and mind-matter dualism of modern science. Ethical
dilemmas in brain injury care are best approached through an empirical
'semioethics' implemented as a dialogical practice among a group of selected
stakeholders seeking a logical solution that best addresses the criterion of
maximizing reasonableness as a tempering of rationality with relational concerns
in the face of the constraints imposed by the injury.
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Langue : ANGLAIS