| Even Some Doctors Think "Brain Dead" Donors are Still Alive �Most impressive, to the medical reader, are the candid views of those involved in the care of the so-called brain dead, and in the removal of their organs, which Margaret Lock obtained by personal interview. Physicians, specialists in intensive care, and surgeons admit to their difficulties in regarding these patients as dead. Some say explicitly that real death occurs when the heart stops. Hence the title of this remarkable book.� From David W. Evans �Lancet� review of Margaret Lock�s new book �Rethinking Our Criteria for Death� Twice Dead: Organ Transplants and the Reinvention of Death, Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. Pp 429. $24.95. ISBN 0 520 22814 6. Dr Evans �Lancet� review is on page 179 of the 13/7/02 edition (Volume 360, Number 9327) Back To Main Page |