04776cam a2200925 4500 531188124 TxAuBib 20210910120000.0 ||||||s2012||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780307907110 0307907112 B005IEGKNE Amazon 2797bbc4-7f57-4b97-a349-b56e21d67af9 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 177302 177302 177302 640175 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Teresi, Dick. The Undead [Libby eBook] : Organ Harvesting, the Ice-Water Test, Beating Heart Cadavers—How Medicine Is Blurring the Line Between Life and Death. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2012. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2059kB. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. science books for adults. science gifts for adults. critical thinking. Death and Dying. sociology books. relationships. mental health. Short Stories. Public Health. history books. science books. biology books. science gifts. biology gifts. anthropology. Neuroscience. Spirituality. science book. biology book. philosophy. Healthcare. psychology. Biography. spiritual. self help. Sociology. Economics. Medicine. Genetics. culture. Science. Biology. History. Medical. health. spirit. ethics. Essays. social. school. Aging. Death. grief. Food. HTML:<p>Important and provocative, <i>The Undead</i> examines why even with the tools of advanced technology, what we think of as life and death, consciousness and nonconsciousness, is not exactly clear and how this problem has been further complicated by the business of organ harvesting.<br /> <br /> Dick Teresi, a science writer with a dark sense of humor, manages to make this story entertaining, informative, and accessible as he shows how death determination has become more complicated than ever. Teresi introduces us to brain-death experts, hospice workers, undertakers, coma specialists and those who have recovered from coma, organ transplant surgeons and organ procurers, anesthesiologists who study pain in legally dead patients, doctors who have saved living patients from organ harvests, nurses who care for beating-heart cadavers, ICU doctors who feel subtly pressured to declare patients dead rather than save them, and many others. Much of what they have to say is shocking. Teresi also provides a brief history of how death has been determined from the times of the ancient Egyptians and the Incas through the twenty-first century. And he draws on the writings and theories of celebrated scientists, doctors, and researchers--Jacques-Bénigne Winslow, Sherwin Nuland, Harvey Cushing, and Lynn Margulis, among others--to reveal how theories about dying and death have changed. With <i>The Undead,</i> Teresi makes us think twice about how the medical community decides when someone is dead.</p>. Nonfiction. Sociology. Science. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/279/7BB/C4/UndeadOrganHarvestingtheIceWaterTestB9780307907110.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=2797BBC4-7F57-4B97-A349-B56E21D67AF9&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/279/7BB/C4/UndeadOrganHarvestingtheIceWaterTestB9780307907110.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=2797BBC4-7F57-4B97-A349-B56E21D67AF9&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/279/7BB/C4/UndeadOrganHarvestingtheIceWaterTestB9780307907110.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=2797BBC4-7F57-4B97-A349-B56E21D67AF9&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)