The undead
Subtitle: organ harvesting, the ice-water test, beating-heart cadavers : how medicine is blurring the line between life and death
By: Dick Teresi
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9780375423710
Subjects: Autobiography; Proof and certification; Death; Attitude to Death; Persistent vegetative state; Organ trafficking; Tissue and Organ Harvesting; Persistent Vegetative State
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-334) and index.
Table of contents: title: Death is here to stay; title: A history of death; title: The brain-death revolution; title: The new undead; title: Netherworlds; title: The near-death experience; title: Postmodern death; title: The moment of death and the search for self.