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 - New York : Pantheon Books , 2012 - 350 p. ; :22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references 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.
English.
9780375423710
Death
Death---Proof and certification
Persistent vegetative state
Organ trafficking
610 TER
The undead : organ harvesting, the ice-water test, beating-heart cadavers : how medicine is blurring the line between life and death / Dick Teresi - New York : Pantheon Books , 2012 - 350 p. ; :22 cm.
Includes bibliographical references 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.
English.
9780375423710
Death
Death---Proof and certification
Persistent vegetative state
Organ trafficking
610 TER
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