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Format: 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 429 pages) , illustrations

ISBN: 9780520926714

Series Statement: California series in public anthropology 1

Content: 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

Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-415) and index , Preamble: Accidental Death , Trauma , The Procurement , The Gift , Death's Shadow , Boundary Transgressions and Moral Uncertainty , Reanimation , Technology in Extremis , Narrow Escapes , Locating the Moment of Death , Jumping the Gun , Making the New Death Uniform , Tragedy , Japan and the Brain-Death "Problem" , Aggressive Harvesting , Technology as Other: Japanese Modernity and Technology , Born of a Brain-Dead Mother , Prevailing against Inertia: An Interim Resolution to the Brain-Death Debate , Becoming a Good Angel , Social Death and Situated Departures , Disconcerting Movements , Imagined Continuities: On Becoming an Ancestor , Memory Work , When Bodies Outlive Persons , Procurement Anxiety , When Persons Linger in Bodies , Transcendence through Music , The Body Transcendent , A Court Order , The Social Life of Human Organs , A Reliable Man , An Unsatisfactory Intelligence , Revisiting Vivisection in a World Short of Organs , A Dubious Definition of Death , Reflections

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Lock, Margaret M Twice dead Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2002 ISBN 0520226054

Language: English

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