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The undead : organ harvesting, the ice-water test, beating-heart cadavers : how medicine is blurring the line between life and death / by Teresi, Dick.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-334) and index.Death is here to stay -- A history of death -- The brain-death revolution -- The new undead -- Netherworlds -- The near-death experience -- Postmodern death -- The moment of death and the search for self.Science writer Dick Teresi examines how death is determined by the medical community and explores organ trafficking, brain death, and near-death experiences.
Subjects: Death.; Death; Persistent vegetative state.; Organ trafficking.;
Available copies: 13 / Total copies: 13
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If she wakes [sound recording] / by Koryta, Michael,author.(CARDINAL)341427; Petkoff, Robert,narrator.(CARDINAL)349086;
Read by Robert Petkoff.The story of Tara Beckley, a college senior assigned to chaperone a visiting engineer to a conference. On the road, she is the victim of a brutal accident that kills the engineer but leaves Tara in a vegetative state - or, at least, so her doctors think. Really, she is the prisoner of locked-in syndrome, fully alert, but unable to move a muscle. Trapped in her body, she discovers that someone powerful wants her dead, but why? And what can she do, lying in a hospital bed, to stop them? Meanwhile, Abby Kaplan, an insurance investigator, is assigned to Tara's case. A former stunt driver, Abby has returned to Maine after a disaster in Hollywood left a beloved actor dead and her own reputation, and nerves shattered. She has nothing left to give to the case, but she can tell there's more to the accident than meets the eye. When she starts asking questions, things spin out of control fast, leaving her boss murdered, Abby on the run, and an enigmatic young hit man on her heels.
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Audiobooks.; Traffic accident victims; Persistent vegetative state; Murder; Assassins;
Available copies: 8 / Total copies: 8
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Into the gray zone : a neuroscientist explores the border between life and death / by Owen, Adrian M.,author.(CARDINAL)347930;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-281) and index.The ghost that haunts me -- First contact -- The unit -- Half-life -- Scaffolds of consciousness -- Psychobabble -- The world as will -- Tennis, anyone? -- Yes and no -- Are you in pain? -- Live or let die? -- Alfred Hitchcock presents -- Back from the dead -- Take me home -- Reading minds.A neuroscientist reveals his work with patients believed to be brain dead to explain how up to twenty percent of them were still consciously alive, sharing insights into what life may be like for such patients and its moral implications."From renowned neuroscientist Adrian Owen comes a thrilling, heartbreaking tale of discovery in one of the least-understood scientific frontiers: the twilight region between full consciousness and brain death. People who inhabit this middle region called the 'gray zone' have sustained traumatic brain injuries or are the victims of stroke or degenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. Many are oblivious to the outside world, and their doctors and families often believe they're incapable of thought. But a sizable number of patients--as many as twenty percent--are experiencing something different: intact minds adrift within damaged brains and bodies. In 2006, Adrian Owen led a team that discovered this lost population and made medical history, provoking an ongoing debate among scientists, physicians, and philosophers about the meaning, value, and purpose of life. In Into the Gray Zone, we follow Owen as he pushes forward the boundaries of science, using a variety of sophisticated brain scans, auditory prompts, and even Alfred Hitchcock film clips to not only 'find' patients who are trapped inside their heads but to actually communicate with them and elicit answers to moving questions, such as 'Are you in pain?' and 'Do you want to go on living?' and 'Are you happy?' (Many gray zone patients do, in fact, claim to be satisfied with their quality of life.) Into the Gray Zone shines a fascinating light on how we think, remember, and pay attention. And it shows us how the field of brain-computer interfaces is about to explode, radically changing prognoses for people with impaired brain function and creating, for all of us, the tantalizing possibility of telepathy and augmented intelligence. Ultimately; this is not just a spellbinding story of scientific discovery but a deeply human, affirming book that causes us to wonder anew at the indomitable bonds of love."--Jacket.
Subjects: Persistent vegetative state.; Brain damage; Persistent vegetative state; Brain damage;
Available copies: 3 / Total copies: 5
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A hope for Emily / by Hewitt, Kate,author.(CARDINAL)425539;
From the moment Emily was born, reaching out with her tiny little star-shaped hand towards her mother, blinking with long eyelashes over soft blue eyes, she became Rachel's whole world. But Rachel's worst nightmare comes true when a rare auto-immune illness leaves five-year-old Emily in a coma the doctors say she may never come out of. And Rachel has to make a heartbreaking decision-one that her ex-husband, Emily's dad James, doesn't agree with. Terrified she's going to lose her daughter for good, Rachel knows she must find a way to keep the hope alive for Emily. But there is only one person she can turn to for help to convince James- his new wife, Eva. As an unlikely but powerful friendship develops between the two women, both Rachel and Eva will have to ask themselves- what is truly the right choice for the tiny, fragile little girl who lies between them?
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Female friendship; Divorced women; Children; Persistent vegetative state; Women's friendships.; Children.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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If she wakes [Large print] / by Koryta, Michael,author.(CARDINAL)341427;
"Tara Beckley is a senior at idyllic Hammel College in Maine. As she drives to deliver a visiting professor to a conference, a horrific car accident kills the professor and leaves Tara in a vegetative state. At least, so her doctors think. In fact, she's a prisoner of locked-in syndrome: fully alert but unable to move a muscle. Trapped in her body, she learns that someone powerful wants her dead--but why? And what can she do, lying in a hospital bed, to stop them? Abby Kaplan, an insurance investigator, is hired by the college to look in to Tara's case. A former stunt driver, Abby returned home after a disaster in Hollywood left an actor dead and her own reputation--and nerves--shattered. Despite the fog of trauma, she can tell that Tara's car crash was no accident. When she starts asking questions, things quickly spin out of control, leaving Abby on the run and a mysterious young hit man named Dax Blackwell hard on her heels." -- Amazon.
Subjects: Large print books.; Detective and mystery fiction.; Thrillers (Fiction); Novels.; Traffic accidents; College students; Insurance investigators; Persistent vegetative state; Assassins; Murder;
Available copies: 7 / Total copies: 7
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The noble lie : when scientists give the right answers for the wrong reasons / by Greenberg, Gary,1957 June 9-(CARDINAL)379639;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-233) and index.Addiction -- Depression -- Sexual orientation -- Schizophrenia -- Brain death -- Persistent vegetative state -- Mortality.
Subjects: Science; Science;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Irises / by Stork, Francisco X.(CARDINAL)348381;
Kate, eighteen, and Mary, sixteen, must make some adult decisions about the course their lives should take when their loving but old-fashioned father dies suddenly, leaving them with their mother, who has been in a persistant vegetative state since an accident four years earlier.HL660LAccelerated Reader AR
Subjects: Young adult fiction.; Coma; Death; Identity (Philosophical concept); Identity (Psychology); Sisters;
Available copies: 4 / Total copies: 6
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Irises [sound recording] / by Stork, Francisco X.(CARDINAL)348381; MacDuffie, Carrington,1958-(CARDINAL)340750;
Read by Carrington MacDuffie.Kate, eighteen, and Mary, sixteen, must make some adult decisions about the course their lives should take when their loving but old-fashioned father dies suddenly, leaving them with their mother, who has been in a persistant vegetative state since an accident four years earlier.7-12.
Subjects: Audiobooks; Coma; Death; Sisters; Coma; Death; Sisters;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Euthanasia / by Snyder, Carrie L.(CARDINAL)475980;
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Subjects: Euthanasia.; Euthanasia; Medical ethics.; Euthanasia, Active; Euthanasia, Passive; Right to die.;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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Catholic bioethics and the gift of human life / by May, William E.,1928-2014.(CARDINAL)510094;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-365) and index.
Subjects: Catholic Church; Bioethics.; Christian ethics;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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