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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

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Teresi, Dick

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Pantheon Books , 2012Description: 350 p. ; :22 cmISBN:

9780375423710

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DDC classification:

610 TER

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Summary: 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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Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	610 TER (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		016535

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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.

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