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Twice dead

Margaret M. Lock

2001429 pagesabout 7–10 hours
2001
first published
  • 2001University of California Press · 441 pages · ENGISBN 9780520926714
  • 2002University of California Press · 429 pages · ENGISBN 9780520226050

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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