The Undead: Organ Harvesting, the Ice-Water Test, Beating-Heart Cadavers--How Medicine Is Blurring the Line Between Life and Death
- ISBN-10
- 1400096111
- ISBN-13
- 9781400096114
- Series
- The Undead
- Category
- Social Science
- Pages
- 350
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Author
- Dick Teresi
Description
Examines how the business of organ harvesting further complicates the process of death declaration and evaluates how death has been determined throughout history.
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