Title:
The undead : organ harvesting, the ice-water test, beating-heart cadavers-- how medicine is blurring the line between life and death / Dick Teresi.
Author:
Teresi, Dick.
Publication Information:
New York : Vintage Books, ©2012.
Call Number:
RA1063 .T47 2012B
Abstract:
Science writer Dick Teresi examines how death is determined by the medical community and explores organ trafficking, brain death, and near-death experiences.
Edition:
1st Vintage books ed.
ISBN:
9781400096114
Physical Description:
xi, 350 pages ; 21 cm.
Contents:
Death is here to stay -- History of death -- Brain-death revolution -- New undead -- Netherworlds -- Near-death experience -- Postmodern death -- Moment of death and the search for self.
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