Twice Dead

Twice Dead is a fascinating and disturbing look at the procurement of organs for transplant. Focusing her study on the differences between North America's and Japan's ideas around brain death, organ donation, and medical ethics, Lock has written a gripping, discomfiting, and provocative piece of work.

Margaret Lock is Professor of Anthropology at McGill University

List of Illustrations

ix

Acknowledgments

xi

Preamble: Accidental Death

1

(13)

Trauma

14

(3)

The Procurement

17

(6)

The Gift

23

(4)

Death's Shadow

27

(5)

Boundary Transgressions and Moral Uncertainty

32

(25)

Reanimation

54

(3)

Technology in Extremis

57

(21)

Narrow Escapes

76

(2)

Locating the Moment of Death

78

(25)

Jumping the Gun

101

(2)

Making the New Death Uniform

103

(27)

Tragedy

127

(3)

Japan and the Brain-Death ``Problem''

130

(19)

Aggressive Harvesting

147

(2)

Technology as Other: Japanese Modernity and Technology

149

(18)

Born of a Brain-Dead Mother

165

(2)

Prevailing against Inertia: An Interim Resolution to the Brain-Death Debate

167

(24)

Becoming a Good Angel

190

(1)

Social Death and Situated Departures

191

(18)

Disconcerting Movements

208

(1)

Imagined Continuities: On Becoming an Ancestor

209

(26)

Memory Work

232

(3)

When Bodies Outlive Persons

235

(28)

Procurement Anxiety

259

(4)

When Persons Linger in Bodies

263

(28)

Transcendence through Music

288

(3)

The Body Transcendent

291

(24)

A Court Order

310

(5)

The Social Life of Human Organs

315

(32)

A Reliable Man

341

(4)

An Unsatisfactory Intelligence

345

(2)

Revisiting Vivisection in a World Short of Organs

347

(18)

A Dubious Definition of Death

363

(2)

Reflections

365

(14)

Bibliography

379

(38)

Index

417

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