An edition of Twice dead (2001)
Twice dead
organ transplants and the reinvention of death
By Margaret M. Lock
Publish Date
2002
Publisher
University of California Press
Language
eng
Pages
429
Description:
Medical knowledge and technology have been sufficiently advanced for surgeons to perform thousands of transplants each year. This text traces the discourse since 1970 that contributed to the locating of a new criterion of death in the brain.
subjects: Brain death, Transplantation of organs, tissues, Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc., Medicine, japan, Medicine, united states, Transplants, Ethics, Organ Transplantation, Tissue Transplantation, Transplantation, Greffe (Chirurgie), Mort cérébrale, MEDICAL, Surgery, Plastic & Cosmetic, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Anthropology, General, Transplantatie, Hersendood, Antropologische aspecten, Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc, Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc--japan, Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc--north america, Brain death--japan, Brain death--north america, Medical anthropology, Medical anthropology--japan, Medical anthropology--north america, Qp89 .l63 2002, 2002 a-752, Wo 660 l813t 2002, 617.9/5/0952
Places: Japan, North America