The undead : organ harvesting, the ice-water test, beating-heart cadavers - how medicine is blurring the line between life and death /
Teresi, Dick,
The undead : organ harvesting, the ice-water test, beating-heart cadavers - how medicine is blurring the line between life and death / Dick Teresi. - xi, 350 pages ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-334) and index.
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.
Science writer Dick Teresi examines how death is determined by the medical community and explores organ trafficking, brain death, and near-death experiences.
0375423710 9780375423710
2011032025
Death.
Death--Proof and certification.
Persistent vegetative state.
Organ trafficking.
Attitude to Death
Tissue and Organ Harvesting
RA1063 / .T47 2012
610
The undead : organ harvesting, the ice-water test, beating-heart cadavers - how medicine is blurring the line between life and death / Dick Teresi. - xi, 350 pages ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-334) and index.
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.
Science writer Dick Teresi examines how death is determined by the medical community and explores organ trafficking, brain death, and near-death experiences.
0375423710 9780375423710
2011032025
Death.
Death--Proof and certification.
Persistent vegetative state.
Organ trafficking.
Attitude to Death
Tissue and Organ Harvesting
RA1063 / .T47 2012
610