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The Undead: Organ Harvesting, The Ice-Water Test, Beating Heart Cadavers--How Medicine Is Blurring The Line Between Life And Death (2012)

by Dick Teresi(Favorite Author)

3.58 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0307907112 (ISBN13: 9780307907110)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Pantheon

review 1: Oh, dear. This book is written with a great deal of humor but the author raises some truly terrifying questions about the ethics of "Beating-Heart Cadavers" and a few horrifying questions about exactly when death occurs.This leads to questions about whether or not the organ donation people are just a wee bit, shall we say, overzealous in their efforts to take from the almost dead. I think the most horrifying question in the entire book is whether or not a "dead" person is truly dead at organ harvesting. The author seems to feel that anaesthetic is a really good idea at harvest time while he is scoffed at by the medical profession.The author raises further ethical questions about exactly when it is okay to harvest organs from one person to give them to another, and wheth... moreer "brain dead" is really "dead."In conclusion, if they're not going to knock me out, even when I'm "dead" I am not going to donate anything.
review 2: First book of my 52 books in 52 weeks challenge. This book had great potential but failed to reach it when it devolved into a very circular protest to the concept of brain-death and the issue of organ transplantation/harvesting, clearly this author has an agenda, despite claiming his neutrality on the subject and supposedly only "reporting the facts". For a book about such a fascinating subject I should not have been rolling my eyes as often as I was. less

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