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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 First edition
Published New York : Pantheon Books, [2012]
©2012

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Description xi, 350 pages ; 22 cm
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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject 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 ethics.
Death.
Attitude to Death.
Death.
Persistent Vegetative State.
Tissue and Organ Harvesting.
Genre/Form Autobiography.
Autobiographies.
LC no. 2011032025
ISBN 9780375423710
0375423710