The undead : organ harvesting, the ice-water test, beating-heart cadavers-- how medicine is blurring the line between life and death /
Teresi, Dick.
New York : Vintage Books,
2012.
Science writer Dick Teresi examines how death is determined by the medical community and explores organ trafficking, brain death, and near-death experiences.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [293]-334) and index.
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.
Science writer Dick Teresi examines how death is determined by the medical community and explores organ trafficking, brain death, and near-death experiences.
Death.
Death
Persistent vegetative state.
Organ trafficking.
Near-death experiences.
Brain death.
Forensic pathology.
Medical ethics.
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.