Cheating Death: The Doctors and Medical Miracles That Are Saving Lives Against All Odds

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A neurosurgeon, chief medical correspondent for CNN, and bestselling author chronicles the almost unbelievable science that has made seemingly miraculous recoveries possible--from experiments with therapeutic hypothermia to save comatose stroke or heart attack victims to lifesaving operations in utero to the study of animal hibernation to help wounded soldiers on far-off battlefields, these remarkable stories transform all our assumptions about the true nature of death and life.-- Cover, p. [4]