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
About this work
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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Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-334) and index.
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.
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Location Status History of MedicineJIB /TEROpen shelves
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ISBN
- 9780375423710
- 0375423710