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Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death (Public Anthropology)
Twice Dead Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death - Public Anthropology
Author: Margaret Lock
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 ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780520228146
ISBN-10: 0520228146
Publication Date: 12/3/2001
Pages: 389
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Publisher: University of California Press
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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