In this chapter, we learn that a new experimental therapy is being used to revive brain dead patients. The director of psychiatry at the hospital where the experiment is being conducted says that he used to be a part of the team that conducted the experiment. He explains that the purpose of the therapy is to revive a brain-dead patient. If the patient regains consciousness, they will not be the person they were before the experiment was conducted. The success rate of the experiment, he says, is not even a tenth of one percent. The experiment is unethical, he explains, because the patients are "turned into puppets" without the consent of their parents. He tells the audience that he can't stand idly by and watch the experiment unfold.
In this chapter, we learn that a new experimental therapy is being used to revive brain dead patients. The director of psychiatry at the hospital where the experiment is being conducted says that he used to be a part of the team that conducted the experiment. He explains that the purpose of the therapy is to revive a brain-dead patient. If the patient regains consciousness, they will not be the person they were before the experiment was conducted. The success rate of the experiment, he says, is not even a tenth of one percent. The experiment is unethical, he explains, because the patients are "turned into puppets" without the consent of their parents. He tells the audience that he can't stand idly by and watch the experiment unfold.