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Author:
Teresi, Dick.
Title:
The undead : organ harvesting, the ice-water test, beating-heart cadavers-- how medicine is blurring the line between life and death / Dick Teresi.
Edition:
1st Vintage Books ed.
Publisher:
Vintage Books
Copyright Date:
2012
Description:
xi, 350 p. ; 21 cm.
Subject:
Attitude to Death.
Death--Proof and certification.
Death.
Death.--Autobiography.
Tissue and Organ Harvesting.
Near-death experiences.
Forensic pathology.
Medical ethics.
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.
Organ trafficking.
Persistent vegetative state.
Brain death.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-334) and index.
Contents:
Death is here to stay -- History of death -- Brain-death revolution -- New undead -- Netherworlds -- Near-death experience -- Postmodern death -- 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.
ISBN:
1400096111
9781400096114
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
UVAX975 -- Western Iowa Tech Library (Sioux City)
WHPE115 -- Storm Lake Public Library (Storm Lake)
PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)

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