The undead : organ harvesting, the ice-water test, beating-heart cadavers-- how medicine is blurring the line between life and death /
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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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Vintage Books,
c2012.
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| Edition: | 1st Vintage Books ed. |
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| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | xi, 350 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-334) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781400096114 1400096111 |