Product Description

Traces the discourse that contributed to the locating of a different criterion of death in the brain, and its routinization in clinical practice in North America. This book demonstrates that death is not self-evident, that the space between life and death is historically and culturally constructed, fluid, multiple, and open to dispute.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #231771 in Books
• Published on: 2001-11-26
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .2 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 442 pages

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Review
"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

About the Author
Margaret Lock is Professor of Anthropology at McGill University and author of the award-winning Encounters with Aging: Mythologies of Menopause in Japan and North America (1993) and East Asian Medicine in Urban Japan: Varieties of Medical Experience(1980), both from California. Among the books she has coedited are Remaking a World (2001), Social Suffering (1997), and Knowledge, Power, and Practice(1993), all from California. In December 2003, she was awarded the Robert B. Textor and Family Prize for Excellence in Anticipatory Anthropology, of the American Anthropology Association.