Twice Dead : Organ Transplants And The Reinvention Of Death - 02 edition

Lock, Margaret : McGill University

"Lock explores and contrasts the continuing disagreements as to what constitutes death in Japan and Western cultures and provides perspectives on their implications for the future of transplantation. The book forces all to rethink what is meant by death and to examine carefuly pressures and tensions societies face as they confront this issue."--Choice
"Margaret Lock produces a superbly scholarly study from her point of view as an academic comparative anthropologist or ethnograpoher....Her approach is informative...precisely because she is exploring the cultural perceptions that are the source of public opinion."

--British Medical Journal

Margaret Lock's Twice Dead is a deeply moving book that raises critically important questions about life and death in the modern world. It is a masterpiece of comparative anthropology and will surely appeal to a wide audience-to people interested in ethics, anthropology, science studies, and studies of the body.--Bruno Latour, author of Pandora's Hope: Essays on the Reality of Science Studies
This is an excellent and exceptional book in three distinct ways: first, in making us rethink the recent changes in our criteria for death; second, in the careful comparative anthropology of Japanese and North American attitudes to organ transplants; and third, in making us see clearly the connection between organ transplants and changing criteria for death. What we have often taken innocently as the progress of medicine is an intricate and complex story about the meaning of life and our body parts.

--Ian Hacking, author of The Social Construction of What?

Twice Dead is a marvel of perfect tensions. While eschewing simple cultural dichotomies, it deftly balances the immediacy of interviews with deep historical reflection; its theoretical insights are razor-sharp, yet its spirit is unfailingly compassionate. Wise and eminently readable, Lock's superb book portrays how impersonal, modern technology compels us to grapple with the most intimate, age-old questions-the bonds between bodies and persons, the borders between the living and the dead.

--Shigehisa Kuriyama, author of The Expressiveness of the Body and the Divergence of Greek and Chinese Medicine

In writing Twice Dead, Lock has performed a magisterial act of scholarship. The text is all-inclusive, fair-minded, and based on the most scrupulous use of the anthropological armamentarium. A must-read for doctors!

--Richard Selzer, M.D., The Exact Location of the Soul: New and Selected Essays

Submitted By Publisher, November, 2003

Acknowledgments
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