Title The undead : organ harvesting, the ice-water test, beating heart cadavers : how medicine is blurring the line between life and death / Dick Teresi. [Boundless electronic resource]

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Pantheon Books, 2012.

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Description	1 online resource
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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.
System Details	Requires Boundless App.
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.
	Brain death.
	Death.
	Death -- Proof and certification.
	Death -- Psychological aspects.
	Death -- Social aspects.
	Forensic pathology.
	Medical ethics.
	Near-death experiences.
	Organ trafficking.
	Persistent vegetative state.
	Death.
	Attitude to Death.
	Death -- Autobiography.
	Persistent Vegetative State.
	Tissue and Organ Harvesting.
Genre	Electronic books.
	History.
Added Author	Boundless (Digital media service)
ISBN	9780307907110 : $48.00
	0307907112 : $48.00

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