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Twice dead

by Margaret M. Lock

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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.

Brain deathTransplantation of organs, tissuesTransplantation of organs, tissues, etc.Medicine, japanMedicine, united statesTransplantsEthicsOrgan TransplantationTissue TransplantationTransplantationGreffe (Chirurgie)Mort cérébrale