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 :
Pantheon Books,
c2012.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The undead : |b organ harvesting, the ice-water test, beating heart cadavers : how medicine is blurring the line between life and death / |c Dick Teresi. |
| 250 | |a 1st ed. | ||
| 260 | |a New York : |b Pantheon Books, |c c2012. | ||
| 300 | |a xi, 350 p. ; |c 22 cm. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a 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. | |
| 520 | |a Science writer Dick Teresi examines how death is determined by the medical community and explores organ trafficking, brain death, and near-death experiences. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Death |x Proof and certification. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Death |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Death |x Social aspects. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Death |x Psychological aspects. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Organ trafficking. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Near-death experiences. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Persistent vegetative state. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Brain death. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Forensic pathology. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Medical ethics. | |
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