Shocked
Subtitle: adventures in bringing back the recently dead
By: David Casarett, MD
Publisher: Current
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781591846710
Subjects: Resuscitation; Apparent Death; Popular works
Description: "Not too long ago, when you were dead, you were dead. There was no coming back. But a little electricity, applied to the heart in just the right way, has changed all that. Now death has become just another serious complication. Dr. David Casarett, a ... researcher and professor of medicine, now chronicles his journey to the cutting edge of resuscitation"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Big Mac rule of resuscitation and the search for the limits of life; title: Why Amsterdam used to be a good place to commit suicide; title: The ice woman meets the strange new science of resuscitation; title: Science fiction, space travel, and suspended animation; title: The deep freeze future : cryonauts venture to the frontiers of immortality; title: Crowdsourcing survival; title: When is "dead" really dead? Listen for the violins.