Twice Dead
Subtitle: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death (Public Anthropology)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: December 3, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 389
ISBN-13: 9780520228146
Subjects: Anthropology; Death & dying; History of medicine; Medical anthropology; Transplant surgery; Social Science; Japan; Medical / Nursing; Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.; Sociology; Transplantation of organs, tis; Ethics; Surgery - Plastic & Cosmetic; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Anthropology - Cultural; Brain death; North America
First sentence: In this book I show how brain death is associated with different sets of assumptions about what constitutes the end of human life in Japan and North America.