Constructive Disappointment and Disbelief: Building a Career in Neuroethics. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Sometimes one's greatest academic disappointments can have unexpected outcomes. This is especially true when one is trying to change career trajectories or do something that others did not take seriously. My path into neuroethics was an unexpected journey catalyzed in part by constructive disappointment and the disbelief of colleagues who thought that the work I was pursuing nearly two decades prior was a fool's errand. After all, could anyone-in his or her right mind-ever conceive of waking up a person unconscious from brain injury and getting him to speak? 1.

publication date

  • October 1, 2018

Research

keywords

  • Consciousness
  • Ethicists
  • Neurosciences

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 85060098203

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1017/S0963180118000063

PubMed ID

  • 30198463

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 27

issue

  • 4