Screen LibraryThe undead：organ harvesting, the ice-water test, beating-heart cadavers : how medicine is blurring the line between life and death
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Pantheon Books,
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| Publisher Address: | New York |
| Publication Dates: | c2012. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xi, 350 p.: ; 22 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780375423710 0375423710 |
| Index Number: | R339 |
| CLC: | R339.3 |
| Call Number: | R339.3/T316 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-334) and index. 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. |