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Twice Dead Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death

Pocket • 2002 • Engelsk

Twice Dead Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death

Av Margaret M. Lock

1 vurderinger • 4.0 av 5

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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...Vis mer

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ISBN

9780520228146

Forlag

University of California Press

Publiseringsår

2002

Språk

Engelsk

Originaltittel

Twice Dead Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death

Format

Pocket

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