Twice dead
Subtitle: organ transplants and the reinvention of death
By: Margaret Lock.
Series: California series in public anthropology -- 1.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 429
Subjects: Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Japan; Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- North America; Brain death -- Japan; Brain death -- North America
Description: Medical knowledge and technology have been sufficiently advanced for surgeons to perform thousands of transplants each year. This text traces the discourse since 1970 that contributed to the locating of a new criterion of death in the brain.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-415) and index.