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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 / Dick Teresi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Teresi, Dick.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Death--Proof and certification.
- Death.
- Death--History.
- History.
- Death--Social aspects.
- Death--Psychological aspects.
- Organ trafficking.
- Near-death experiences.
- Persistent vegetative state.
- Brain death.
- Forensic pathology.
- Medical ethics.
- Attitude to Death.
- Persistent Vegetative State.
- Tissue and Organ Harvesting.
- Medical Subjects:
- Death.
- Attitude to Death.
- Persistent Vegetative State.
- Tissue and Organ Harvesting.
- Genre:
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 350 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Pantheon Books, [2012]
- Summary:
- Science writer Dick Teresi examines how death is determined by the medical community and explores organ trafficking, brain death, and near-death experiences.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0375423710
- OCLC:
- 745304115
- Publisher Number:
- 99948023471
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