How can we medically tell whether or not someone is alive or dead? The answer is much more complicated than you'd think. In this episode, which is a live podcast I gave with Tony Breu at the Massachusetts Chapter of the American College of Physicians annual meeting on October 16, 2021, we track the evolution and controversies of the death exam, from a trans-Atlantic scandal surrounding a possible vivisection, a 19th century “X-prize” to determine a technology that could diagnose death, the important distinction between “permanent” and irreversible, and the mysterious Lazarus phenomenon.
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73 - Seadragon
72 - Problems
71 - A Doctor's Work, part 2
70 - A Doctor's Work
69 - The Database
68 - The History
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67 - Fever on the Frontier
66 - Burnout
64 - A Vicious Circle
63 - Signals
62 - The Sisters Blackwell
61 - Etymologies
60 - Santa's Salmonella
59 - Cry of the Suffering Organs
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58 - The Original (Antigenic) Sin
57 - The Second Wave
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