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SHOCKED
Adventures in Bringing Back the Recently Dead
Captivating, thought provoking, humorous, and a little unsettling, SHOCKED takes on questions of life and death with a light touch and a broad perspective. It’s perfect for fans of popular science books like Mary Roach’s Stiff and Atul Gawande’s Complications.
Not long ago, when you were dead, you were really, truly dead. But a little electricity, applied to the heart in just the right way, has changed all that. Now death has become just another serious complication.
In Shocked, Dr. David Casarett, a highly respected professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, embarks on a journey to find out how the science of resuscitation is changing the way we think about life and death.
His travels take him inside a multi-million dollar cryonics facility in the Arizona desert, into a darkroom full of hibernating lemurs in North Carolina, and to an impromptu meeting of a “back from the dead” club in a Pittsburgh bar.
Along the way, he introduces us to scientists who are steadily extending the boundaries of what is possible, entrepreneurs who have placed a price tag on our desire for resurrection, and a wide assortment of patients and others whose lives have been changed—for better or for worse—by a little jolt of electricity.
David Casarett, M.D., is a physician, researcher, and tenured associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine. His studies have included more than ten thousand patients and have resulted in more than one hundred articles and book chapters, published in leading medical journals such as JAMA and The New England Journal of Medicine. His many awards include the prestigious U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. He is the author of Last Acts. He lives in Philadelphia.
In Shocked, Dr. David Casarett, a highly respected professor of medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, embarks on a journey to find out how the science of resuscitation is changing the way we think about life and death.
His travels take him inside a multi-million dollar cryonics facility in the Arizona desert, into a darkroom full of hibernating lemurs in North Carolina, and to an impromptu meeting of a “back from the dead” club in a Pittsburgh bar.
Along the way, he introduces us to scientists who are steadily extending the boundaries of what is possible, entrepreneurs who have placed a price tag on our desire for resurrection, and a wide assortment of patients and others whose lives have been changed—for better or for worse—by a little jolt of electricity.
David Casarett, M.D., is a physician, researcher, and tenured associate professor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Perelman School of Medicine. His studies have included more than ten thousand patients and have resulted in more than one hundred articles and book chapters, published in leading medical journals such as JAMA and The New England Journal of Medicine. His many awards include the prestigious U.S. Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. He is the author of Last Acts. He lives in Philadelphia.
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Published 2014-08-01 by Current |
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