Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Lock, Margaret M.

Publication

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2002.

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Details

Description

xii, 429 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Medical knowledge and technology have been sufficiently advanced for surgeons to perform thousands of transplants each year. This text traces the discourse since 1970 that contributed to the locating of a new criterion of death in the brain.

Series Statement

California series in public anthropology ; 1

Uniform Title

California series in public anthropology 1.

Subject

• Transplants
• Organ Transplantation
• Brain Death
• Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. > Japan
• Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. > North America
• Brain death > Japan
• Brain death > North America
• Medical anthropology > Japan
• Medical anthropology > North America
• Tissue Transplantation
• Transplantation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-415) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preamble: Accidental Death 1 -- Trauma 14 -- The Procurement 17 -- The Gift 23 -- Death's Shadow 27 -- 1. Boundary Transgressions and Moral Uncertainty 32 -- Reanimation 54 -- 2. Technology in Extremis 57 -- Narrow Escapes 76 -- 3. Locating the Moment of Death 78 -- Jumping the Gun 101 -- 4. Making the New Death Uniform 103 -- Tragedy 127 -- 5. Japan and the Brain-Death "Problem" 130 -- Aggressive Harvesting 147 -- 6. Technology as Other: Japanese Modernity and Technology 149 -- Born of a Brain-Dead Mother 165 -- 7. Prevailing against Inertia: An Interim Resolution to the Brain-Death Debate 167 -- Becoming a Good Angel 190 -- 8. Social Death and Situated Departures 191 -- Disconcerting Movements 208 -- 9. Imagined Continuities: On Becoming an Ancestor 209 -- Memory Work 232 -- 10. When Bodies Outlive Persons 235 -- Procurement Anxiety 259 -- 11. When Persons Linger in Bodies 263 -- Transcendence through Music 288 -- 12. The Body Transcendent 291 -- A Court Order 310 -- 13. The Social Life of Human Organs 315 -- A Reliable Man 341 -- An Unsatisfactory Intelligence 345 -- 14. Revisiting Vivisection in a World Short of Organs 347 -- A Dubious Definition of Death 363 -- Reflections 365.

ISBN

• 0520226054
• 0520228146 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2001004110

OCLC

• 47272032
• SCSB-10255182

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library