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Twice Dead Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death

Paperback • 2002 • English

Twice Dead Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death

By Margaret M. Lock

1 Ratings • 4.0 of 5

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About the book

Tales about organ transplants appear in mythology and folk stories, and surface in documents from medieval times, but only during the past twenty years has medical knowledge and technology been sufficiently advanced for surgeons to perform thousands of transplants each year. In the majority of cases individuals diagnosed as "brain dead" are the source of the organs without which transplants could not take place. In this compelling and provocative examination, Margaret Lock traces the discourse o...Show more

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ISBN

9780520228146

Publisher

University of California Press

Published year

2002

Language

English

Original title

Twice Dead Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death

Format

Paperback

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