The Resource The undead : organ harvesting, the ice-water test, beating-heart cadavers-- how medicine is blurring the line between life and death, Dick Teresi
The undead : organ harvesting, the ice-water test, beating-heart cadavers-- how medicine is blurring the line between life and death, Dick Teresi
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- Summary
- Science writer Dick Teresi examines how death is determined by the medical community and explores organ trafficking, brain death, and near-death experiences
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xi, 350 pages
- Contents
-
- 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
- Isbn
- 9780375423710
- Label
- The undead : organ harvesting, the ice-water test, beating-heart cadavers-- how medicine is blurring the line between life and death
- Title
- The undead
- Title remainder
- organ harvesting, the ice-water test, beating-heart cadavers-- how medicine is blurring the line between life and death
- Statement of responsibility
- Dick Teresi
- Subject
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- Tissue and Organ Harvesting
- Attitude to Death
- trueAutobiography
- trueBrain death
- trueDead
- trueDeath
- trueDeath -- History
- trueDeath -- Proof and certification
- trueDeath -- Social aspects
- trueForensic pathology
- trueHuman body parts industry and trade
- trueLoss of consciousness
- trueMedical ethics
- Near-death experiences
- Organ trafficking
- Persistent Vegetative State
- truePersistent vegetative state
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Science writer Dick Teresi examines how death is determined by the medical community and explores organ trafficking, brain death, and near-death experiences
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/novelist/bookUI
- 10083779
- Cataloging source
- DNLM/DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Teresi, Dick
- Dewey number
- 614/.1
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- RA1063
- LC item number
- .T47 2012
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- NLM call number
- W 820
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Brain death
- Death
- Death
- Death
- Organ trafficking
- Near-death experiences
- Persistent vegetative state
- Forensic pathology
- Medical ethics
- Death
- Attitude to Death
- Death
- Persistent Vegetative State
- Tissue and Organ Harvesting
- http://bibfra.me/vocab/lite/titleRemainder
- organ harvesting, the ice-water test, beating heart cadavers : how medicine is blurring the line between life and death
- Label
- The undead : organ harvesting, the ice-water test, beating-heart cadavers-- how medicine is blurring the line between life and death, Dick Teresi
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-334) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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
- Control code
- 847463
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xi, 350 pages
- Isbn
- 9780375423710
- Lccn
- 2011032025
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) i9780375423710
- (DNLM)101565645
- Label
- The undead : organ harvesting, the ice-water test, beating-heart cadavers-- how medicine is blurring the line between life and death, Dick Teresi
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 331-334) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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
- Control code
- 847463
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xi, 350 pages
- Isbn
- 9780375423710
- Lccn
- 2011032025
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) i9780375423710
- (DNLM)101565645
Subject
- Tissue and Organ Harvesting
- Attitude to Death
- trueAutobiography
- trueBrain death
- trueDead
- trueDeath
- trueDeath -- History
- trueDeath -- Proof and certification
- trueDeath -- Social aspects
- trueForensic pathology
- trueHuman body parts industry and trade
- trueLoss of consciousness
- trueMedical ethics
- Near-death experiences
- Organ trafficking
- Persistent Vegetative State
- truePersistent vegetative state
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