Twice dead : organ transplants and the reinvention of death / Margaret Lock.
2002
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Author
Title
Twice dead : organ transplants and the reinvention of death / Margaret Lock.
Published
Berkeley : University of California Press, [2002]
Copyright
©2002
Call Number
QP89 .L63 2002
ISBN
0520226054
0520228146
0520228146
Description
xii, 429 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
System Control No.
(OCoLC)47272032
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 379-415) and index.
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Table of Contents
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