Twice dead : organ transplants and the reinvention of death / Margaret Lock.
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.
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
[2002]
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| Series: | California series in public anthropology ;
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| Call Number: |
QP89 .L63 2002 |
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| Status: | Available Request this item |