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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.

By: Teresi, Dick.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Pantheon Books, c2012Edition: 1st ed.Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.Description: xi, 350 p. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 9780375423710; 0375423710.Subject(s): Death -- Proof and certification | Death -- History | Death -- Social aspects | Death -- Psychological aspects | Organ trafficking | Near-death experiences | Persistent vegetative state | Brain death | Forensic pathology | Medical ethicsDDC classification: 610
Contents:
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.
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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Two Weeks Davenport Library Circulating Collection Print-Circulating 610 T272 2012 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 34284003138732

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.

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