(The MIT Press) By the Director for the Centre of Death Studies, a book about death which takes the reader on a journey through the history of ‘death-defying’ technologies, from nineteenth-century embalming machines to the modern medical machinery deployed expressly to keep human bodies from dying, blurring the boundary between alive and dead.

Original source: https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-03/tmp-tot031720.php