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Dick Teresi


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Science, Biology, Social Sciences


Dick Teresi is the coauthor of The God Particle and the author of Lost Discoveries: The Ancient Roots of Modern Science, both selected as New York Times Book Review Notable Books. He has been the editor in chief of Science Digest, Longevity, VQ, and Omni, and has written for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Atlantic, among other publications.

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Average rating: 4.05 · 4,869 ratings · 366 reviews · 20 distinct works • Similar authors
The God Particle: If the Un...
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Omni's Continuum: Dramatic ...
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Laser: Supertool of the 1980's
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“Once a patient goes brain dead and relatives sign his organ donation consent form, he will get the best medical treatment of his life. A hospital code blue may be a call for doctors to rush to the bedside of a beating heart cadaver who needs his or her heart defibrillated.”
― Dick Teresi, The Undead: Organ Harvesting, the Ice-Water Test, Beating Heart Cadavers--How Medicine Is Blurring the Line Between Life and Death
tags: beating-heart-cadavers, cadavers, health-care, heart-attack
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“moribund patients, conducting autopsies on them all and EEGs on some.”
― Dick Teresi, The Undead: Organ Harvesting, the Ice-Water Test, Beating Heart Cadavers--How Medicine Is Blurring the Line Between Life and Death
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