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The Undead
Organ Harvesting, The Ice-Water Test, Beating-Heart Cadavers—How Medicine Is Blurring the Line Between Life and Death
By Teresi, Dick
- ISBN
- 9780375423710
- Publisher
- Pantheon
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Reviewed on April 1, 2012 | Science and Technology
Few if any of the numerous recent books on end-of-life care combine humor, learning, and insight as Teresi (Lost Discoveries: The Ancient Roots of Modern Science) does here. By exploring how death has been determined from ancient times through modern Western medicine, he shows that some tests for death are not always foolproof. He argues that the possibility of organ donation has changed how we ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
