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Book SynopsisTraces the discourse that contributed to the locating of a different criterion of death in the brain, and its routinization in clinical practice in North America. This book demonstrates that death is not self-evident, that the space between life and death is historically and culturally constructed, fluid, multiple, and open to dispute.
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Preamble: Accidental Death Trauma The Procurement The Gift Death's Shadow 1. Boundary Transgressions and Moral Uncertainty Reanimation 2. Technology in Extremis Narrow Escapes 3. Locating the Moment of Death Jumping the Gun 4. Making Death Uniform Tragedy 5. The Brain-Death "Problem" Aggressive Harvesting 6. Technology as Other: Japanese Modernity and Technology Born of a Brain-Dead Mother 7. Prevailing against Inertia Organ Donor Card 8. Situated Departures Disconcerting Movements 9 Imaginative Continuities Memory Work 10.When Bodies Outlive Persons Procurement Anxiety 11. When Persons Linger in Bodies Musical Feat 12. The Body Transcendent A Court Order 13. The Social Life of Human Organs A Reliable Man An Unsatisfactory Intelligence 14. Revisiting Vivisection Almost Full Circle Reflections Bibliography Index
