Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death Book

Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death, 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 tr, Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death

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Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death
Written by author Margaret Lock
Published by University of California Press, December 2001
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 tr
Margaret Lock's Twice Dead is a deeply moving book that raises critically important questions about life and death in the modern world. It is a masterpiece of comparative anthropology and will surely appeal to a wide audience-to people interested i

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Acknowledgments
Preamble: Accidental Death 1
1 Boundary Transgressions and Moral Uncertainty 32
2 Technology in Extremis 57
3 Locating the Moment of Death 78
4 Making the New Death Uniform 103
5 Japan and the Brain-Death "Problem" 130
6 Technology as Other: Japanese Modernity and Technology 149
7 Prevailing against Inertia: An Interim Resolution to the Brain-Death Debate 167
8 Social Death and Situated Departures 191
9 Imagined Continuities: On Becoming an Ancestor 209
10 When Bodies Outlive Persons 235
11 When Persons Linger in Bodies 263
12 The Body Transcendent 291
13 The Social Life of Human Organs 315
14 Revisiting Vivisection in a World Short of Organs 347
Reflections 365
Bibliography 379
Index 417

Title: Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death

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Item Number: 9780520228146

Publication Date: December 2001

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Product Description: Full Name: Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death; Short Name:Twice Dead

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Weight: 0.200 kg (0.44 lbs)

Width: 6.000 cm (2.36 inches)

Heigh : 8.880 cm (3.50 inches)

Depth: 1.130 cm (0.44 inches)

Date Added: August 25, 2020, Added By: Ross

Date Last Edited: August 25, 2020, Edited By: Ross

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This is a very interesting read. The cross cultural comparison has one wondering if we can really define being dead.

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	List of Illustrations
	Acknowledgments
	Preamble: Accidental Death	1
1	Boundary Transgressions and Moral Uncertainty	32
2	Technology in Extremis	57
3	Locating the Moment of Death	78
4	Making the New Death Uniform	103
5	Japan and the Brain-Death "Problem"	130
6	Technology as Other: Japanese Modernity and Technology	149
7	Prevailing against Inertia: An Interim Resolution to the Brain-Death Debate	167
8	Social Death and Situated Departures	191
9	Imagined Continuities: On Becoming an Ancestor	209
10	When Bodies Outlive Persons	235
11	When Persons Linger in Bodies	263
12	The Body Transcendent	291
13	The Social Life of Human Organs	315
14	Revisiting Vivisection in a World Short of Organs	347
	Reflections	365
	Bibliography	379
	Index	417