Twice dead : organ transplants and the reinvention of death / 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.

Bibliographic Details

Online Access:	Full Text (via EBSCO)
Main Author:	Lock, Margaret M. (Author)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2002.
Series:	California series in public anthropology ; 1.
Subjects:	Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. > Japan. Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. > North America. Brain death > Japan. Brain death > North America. Brain death. Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. Japan. North America.