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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
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- ISBN: 9780307907110 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0307907112 (electronic bk.)
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1 online resource (xi, 350 p.) - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Pantheon Books, c2012.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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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.
