Teresi, Dick, <br/><br/>
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 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-334) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> Science writer Dick Teresi examines how death is determined by the medical community and explores organ trafficking, brain death, and near-death experiences. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0375423710 9780375423710 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2011032025 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Death.<br/>Death--Proof and certification.<br/>Persistent vegetative state.<br/>Organ trafficking.<br/>Attitude to Death<br/>Tissue and Organ Harvesting
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RA1063  / .T47 2012 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>610