The Lazarus effect
Subtitle: the science that is rewriting the boundaries between life and death
By: Sam Parnia with Josh Young
Contributors: Young, Josh (Joshua D.)
Publisher: Rider; Ebury Publishing
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9781846043079
Subjects: Cardiac resuscitation; Brain resuscitation; Brain death; Near-death experiences; Resuscitation; Brain Death; Hjarndod; Nara-doden-upplevelser
Description: "How many minutes can you now survive after cardiac arrest? What do new medical techniques teach us about consciousness? How will these change our views of who we are? In 2012, two football stars collapsed while playing. Both were technically dead yet, while Fabrice Muamba received hypothermia treatment and recovered, his counterpart in another country did not. In "The Lazarus Effect", Dr Sam Parnia, a critical care physician and one of the world's leading experts on the scientific study of death, uses fascinating stories, as well as the very latest research, to investigate what happens during cardiac arrest. He also explains how medical advances are revolutionising our chances of survival. Parnia shows how these developments have introduced a controversial 'grey zone' between heart failure and irreversible death, where death is not a single point but a process. What does that mean for our definition of death? And how can we account for the way the human mind continues to exist after death has begun? These questions come from the heart of a debate that has profound ethical, scientific and philosophical implications for us all, not least the fact that, soon, we will have more power over life and death than ever before."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-344).
Table of contents: title: 1. Amazing things are happening here; title: 2. One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind; title: 3. The formula of life; title: 4. Reversing death; title: 5. The orphan; title: 6. What it's like to die; title: 7. The elephant in the drak; title: 8. Understanding the self: brain, soul and consciousness; title: 9. The afterlife we know; title: 10. The AWARE study; title: 11. What does it all mean?