The undead : organ harvesting, the ice-water test, beating-heart cadavers : how medicine is blurring the line between life and death / Dick Teresi.

  • Teresi, Dick.
Date:
[2012], ©2012
  • Books

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Description

Science writer Dick Teresi examines how death is determined by the medical community and explores organ trafficking, brain death, and near-death experiences.

Publication/Creation

New York : Pantheon Books, [2012], ©2012.

Physical description

xi, 350 pages ; 22 cm

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Contents

Death is here to stay -- A history of death -- The brain-death revolution -- The new undead -- Netherworlds -- The near-death experience -- Postmodern death -- The moment of death and the search for self.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-334) and index.

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  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    JIB /TER
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ISBN

  • 9780375423710
  • 0375423710