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Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death (Public Anthropology)

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A masterpiece of social research

Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death (Public Anthropology)
Margaret Lock
Manufacturer: University of California Press
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0520228146

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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. In the majority of cases individuals diagnosed as "brain dead" are the source of the organs without which transplants could not take place. In this compelling and provocative examination, Margaret Lock traces the discourse over the past thirty years that contributed to the locating of a new criterion of death in the brain, and its routinization in clinical practice in North America. She compares this situation with that in Japan where, despite the availability of the necessary technology and expertise, brain death was legally recognized only in 1997, and then under limited and contested circumstances. Twice Dead explores the cultural, historical, political, and clinical reasons for the ready acceptance of the new criterion of death in North America and its rejection, until recently, in Japan, with the result that organ transplantation has been severely restricted in that country. This incisive and timely discussion 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.
In addition to an analysis of that professional literature on and popular representations of the subject, Lock draws on extensive interviews conducted over ten years with physicians working in intensive care units, transplant surgeons, organ recipients, donor families, members of the general public in both Japan and North America, and political activists in Japan opposed to the recognition of brain death. By showing that death can never be understood merely as a biological event, and that cultural, medical, legal, and political dimensions are inevitably implicated in the invention of brain death, Twice Dead confronts one of the most troubling questions of our era.

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A masterpiece of social research.......2001-12-28

Margaret Lock discusses how organ transplant interests fostered the notion of brain death in North America and Japan. Until recently, Japan did not accept brain death as a sufficient criterion of death, even when the Japanese had all the technology and medical skills to carry out organ transplantation. By contrasting the muted discussion about brain death in North America with the heated, well informed public debates in Japan, Lock makes readers uncomfortable. Are people declared brain dead in America really dead, or do neurologists simply assume that they are dead to allow transplantation to take place? When does death occur anyway; is it a process or an event? Should physicians determine death with technological guidelines, or should death be defined by the people who are the most implicated, like relatives? Lock does not provide easy answers to those questions but her exhaustive research indicates how a different consensus about brain death emerged in the East and the West.
This book is a masterpiece of social research that does not succumb to cheap moralizing. Lucidly written, it is solidly grounded in anthropology but widely accessible. I strongly recommend it to anyone with an interest in medicine or anthropology.

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The Doctor will kill you now
Quick and dirty
Not for Me
life on the edge
It packs a punch

Twice Dying: A Novel
Neil McMahon
Manufacturer: HarperCollins
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0060193646

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Do you know what happens
if you throw a piglet into a cage
with two hungry cobras?

NGIs. We read about them every day: violent sociopaths--rapists, arsonists, murderers--who "get away" with their crimes because they're found not guilty by reason of insanity. Instead of prison, these NGIs are sent to live together in concrete-and-barbwire compounds like Psych Unit Three in the Clevinger Rehabilitation Program, a high security mental institution outside San Francisco. They start eating it
from either end. Then one cobra
will swallow the other.

Clevinger psychologist Alison Chapley, a woman with her own dark secrets and needs, spends her days among these NGIs. When one of the most vicious is recommended for release, she immediately becomes suspicios. Digging deep into the hospital's files, she discovers that many of these violent offenders have been fast-tracked, "rehabilitated," and released back into society. After which, one by one, these men begin to disappear. Where are they? Who's behind their release? And why?That's what Naia does.

Determined to find the truth, Alison turns to the one person she can trust, her ex-lover Carroll Monks, a physician and medical investigator. Partly because of the danger of the investigation itself, partly because of Alison's sexually charged attraction to danger, Monks only reluctantly agrees to help. Almost immediately they find themselves lured into a macabre and increasingly deadly game of cat-and-mouse, orchestrated by a cunning mastermind known only as Naia.She turns the strong
against each other...
and harvests the victor.

Naia's perverse and carefully chosen clues--plaster marks, a snuff-style videotape, a deadly cobra--draw Alison into a psychological seduction she cannot resist. To save Alsion and himslef, Monks must outwit this brilliant and deranged mind at its own twisted game....

Neil McMahon's Twice Dying is a uniquely heart-stopping read, a stylish, spare novel with a terrifying twist that will leave readers quessing to the very end.

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The Doctor will kill you now.......2006-07-20

A female shrink finds out that her boss is taking bribes and declaring criminals to be "not guilty by reason of insanity" when in fact they aren't criminally insane at all. She comes to her friend (an ER doctor) for help when she discovers that as soon as these violent offenders are released back into society someone is killing them.
Good medical thriller that isn't too medically technical. Enjoyable reading

Quick and dirty.......2004-10-01

Good action read with another flawed hero. A promising writer. This one could go to the screen.

Not for Me.......2001-01-14

The would be good guys in this story were not all that interesting and/or good. The bad guys were NGI's (Not guilty by reason of insanity) and they were being released from their hospital back to an unsuspecting society. Phychologist, Alison Chapley, who works at the hospital heads back to an old lover for help in solving the mysterious disappearances of the inmates that have been released. The ex-lover, an emergency room doctor with his own problems is drawn back to Alison. Their original relationship was less than admirable. The reviews on this book were good; I seem to be the lone voice who didn't think much of it.

life on the edge.......2000-12-16

In Twice Dying, the debut thriller by Neil McMahon we are introduced to Emergency room physician Carroll Monks. Dr. Monks is a divorced man who lives with three cats, drinks a good deal of vodka and dabbles in detective work as a hobby. His ex-lover psychologist Allison Chapley leaves him a present in his car as a method of asking for help. Allison is given to kinky sex and likes to live life on the edge. She is currently working in a rehab facility which houses the criminally insane. Allison believes she has stumbled onto a plot to release these dangerous criminals prematurely. She seeks Monks assistance in uncovering the facts. Neither of them realize the true risks involved.

This novel moves at a fast pace and keeps the reader guessing. It remains a mystery until the end.

It packs a punch.......2000-08-18

I was a bit disappointed when I received this book in the mail. I'm used to 400 page novels and this was just barely over 200pgs. But was I WRONG! wow, this book just picked up the pace and tone from the very first to the last page. I was hooked from the beginning and kept trying to unravel the plot. But it was just written superbly! The author was very informative with medicine, such as ER with Carroll Monks and Alison Chapley's path with psychiatry.

This novel packs a wallop despite the 200pages! Absolutey must read!

Die Twice: Two Crime Novels in One The Business of Dying and The Murder Exchange

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A New British Star

Die Twice: Two Crime Novels in One The Business of Dying and The Murder Exchange
Simon Kernick
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Minotaur
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0312359810
Release Date: 2006-05-02

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A New British Star.......2007-04-11

This book includes the first two novels by Simon Kernick and if these are any indication of his talent, readers will find him to be a writer to be mentioned in the same group of outstanding British/Scottish/Irish writers including Peter Robinson, Ruth Rendell, Ian Rankin, P.D. James and Ken Bruen. This is gritty, noirish crime fiction at its best. Good and bad coppers, interesting villians and great atnetion to police proecedural details with slam bang prose make Kernick an interesting read. The two novels have some characters that overlap (and some of which appear in his later novels), which adds interest and continuity to the stories. These stories are impossible to put down reading and will make you anxious to find his other novels. A real star is born here, folks. Read these stories and you will be equally impressed.

Twice an angel: Living and dying with Lyme disease : the Jenny Umphress story

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Twice an angel: Living and dying with Lyme disease : the Jenny Umphress story
Susan Umphress
Manufacturer: Carlisle Printing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding
ASIN: 1890050393

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Ex-Library, moving story of Jenny and her battle through retold through the love of her mother of her impressive battle with Lyme disease, good cond., tight binding, clean pages, very light ex-library markings

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Dying Twice: A Sister's Tale
Emma Dally
Manufacturer: Little Brown
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000G9PHA8

Guadalcanal twice-told: An amazing true diary of a Japanese soldier and memoirs of the American sailor who found him alive, but dying, on Guadalcanal

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Guadalcanal twice-told: An amazing true diary of a Japanese soldier and memoirs of the American sailor who found him alive, but dying, on Guadalcanal
James Murray Johns
Manufacturer: Vantage Press
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Once dying, twice dead: An Eric Ward novel

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Once dying, twice dead: An Eric Ward novel
Roy Lewis
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Press
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Binding: Unknown Binding

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Twice Dying
Neil McMahon
Manufacturer: HarperTorch
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OFBBFO

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Once Dying Twice Dead
Rh Value Publishing
Manufacturer: Random House Value Publishing
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0517618613
Release Date: 1986-04-16

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Twice Dying
Neil McMahon
Manufacturer: HarperCollins
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