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

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

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

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Teresi, Dick
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Pantheon Books, ©2012.
Subjects:
Death.
Death > Proof and certification.
Persistent vegetative state.
Organ trafficking.
Attitude to Death.
Persistent Vegetative State.
Tissue and Organ Harvesting.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Death & Dying.
MEDICAL > Ethics.
Tod
Feststellung
Transplantatentnahme
Personal Narrative.
Nonfiction.
Table of 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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