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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New York :
Vintage Books,
c2012.
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| Edition: | 1st Vintage Books ed. |
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Table of 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.