The Undead : : Organ Harvesting, the Ice-Water Test, Beating Heart Cadavers : how Medicine is Blurring the Line Between Life and Death
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Death is here to stay -- A history of death -- The brain-death revolution -- The new undead -- Netherworlds -- The near death experience -- Postmodern death -- The moment of death and the search for self.
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Sometimes dry but always interesting submitted by andreahubert on June 26, 2012, 9:58am Examines ethics of dying. Gives examples. Provokes thought on subject from all sides.
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New York : Pantheon Books, c2012.
Year Published: 2012
Description: 336 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
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9780375423710
0375423710
SUBJECTS
Death.
Attitude to Death.
Death -- Autobiography.
Persistent Vegetative State.
Tissue and Organ Harvesting.