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

The undead [electronic resource] : organ harvesting, the ice-water test, beating heart cadavers : how medicine is blurring the line between life and death / Dick Teresi.

Teresi, Dick. (Author).

Summary:

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

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780307907110 (electronic bk.)
  • ISBN: 0307907112 (electronic bk.)
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (xi, 350 p.)
  • Edition: 1st ed.
  • Publisher: New York : Pantheon Books, c2012.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
Source of Description Note:
Description based on print version record.
Subject: Death > Proof and certification.
Death > History.
Death > Social aspects.
Death > Psychological aspects.
Organ trafficking.
Near-death experiences.
Persistent vegetative state.
Brain death.
Forensic pathology.
Medical ethics.
Death.
Attitude to Death.
Death > Autobiography.
Persistent Vegetative State.
Tissue and Organ Harvesting.
Genre: Electronic books.

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