Twice Dead

Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death

By:

Margaret M Lock

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Paperback / softback

Series:

California Series in Public Anthropology

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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 20 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 30 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 demo

Author Biography:

Margaret Lock is Professor of Anthropology at McGill University and author of the award-winning Encounters with Aging: Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America (1993) and East Asian Medicine in Urban Japan: Varieties of Medical Experience(1980), both from California. Among the books she has coedited are Remaking a World (2001), Social Suffering (1997), and Knowledge, Power, and Practice(1993), all from California. In December 2003, she was awarded the Robert B. Textor and Family Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology, of the American Anthropology Association.

Release date Australia

December 1st, 2001

Author

Margaret M Lock

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

21 b-w illustrations

Pages

441

Series

California Series in Public Anthropology

Dimensions

152x229x28

ISBN-13

9780520228146

Product ID

2294169

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