University of Missouri Press, 2017 Cloth: 978-0-8262-2103-2 | eISBN: 978-0-8262-7368-0 Library of Congress Classification BF1045.N4S43 2017 Dewey Decimal Classification 133.9013
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
What happens to consciousness during the act of dying? The most compelling answers come from people who almost die and later recall events that occurred while lifesaving resuscitation, emergency care, or surgery was performed. These events are now called near-death experiences (NDEs). As medical and surgical skills improve, innovative procedures can bring back patients who have traveled farther on the path to death than at any other time in history. Physicians and healthcare professionals must learn how to appropriately treat patients who report an NDE. It is estimated that more than 10 million people in the United States have experienced an NDE. Hagan and the contributors to this volume engage in evidence-based research on near-death experiences and include physicians who themselves have undergone a near-death experience. This book establishes a new paradigm for NDEs.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
John C. Hagan III, MD is a board certified ophthalmologist and was the founder of Midwest Eye Institute of Kansas City. He has published more than 140 scientific articles and designed several surgical instruments. He is the editor of Missouri Medicine: The Journal of the Missouri State Medical Association and lives in Kansas City, MO.
REVIEWS
“A subject currently the focus of intense public discussion, this book conveys a lot of important information in a very brief compass.”—Edward F. Kelly, University of Virginia, author of Beyond Physicalism: Toward Reconciliation of Science and Spirituality
“A landmark study of seemingly trascendent consciousness reported by patients who were revived after dying. Research into such experiences began with Greek philosophers, including Plato and Democritus, but Dr. Hagan's book will be the gold standard on this subject for years to come. The book brings together historical, philosophical, psychological, clinical and neuroscientific aspects of near-death experiences to illuminate one of the deepest mysteries of human existence.”—Raymond A. Moody, MD, PhD, author of Life After Life
“As editor of Missouri Medicine, the journal of the state medical association, Hagan resolved to put into words, as reasoned and rational as possible, what people in near-death states say they’ve experienced.”—The Kansas City Star
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword: Raymond Moody, MD, PhD
Acknowledgments
About Missouri Medicine: The Journal of the Missouri State Medical Association
Introduction: The Science of Near-Death Experience: The Most Comprehensive Study In the World’s Medical Peer-reviewed Literature
By John C. Hagan III, MD
Getting Comfortable With Near-Death Experiences
Chapter 1: Near-Death Experiences: An Essay in Medicine & Philosophy
By Raymond A. Moody, MD, PhD
Chapter 2: An Overview of Near-Death Experiences
By Bruce Greyson, MD
Chapter 3: Out of One’s Mind or Beyond the Brain? The Challenge of Interpreting Near-Death Experiences
By Dean Radin, PhD
Chapter 4: Dutch Prospective Research on Near-Death Experiences During Cardiac Arrest
By Pim van Lommel, MD
Chapter 5: My Unimaginable Journey: A Physician’s Near-Death Experience
By Jean Renee Hausheer, MD
Chapter 6: My Near-Death Experience: A Call From God
By Tony Cicoria, MD & Jordan Cicoria
Chapter 7: Near-Death Experiences: Evidence for Their Reality
By Jeffrey Long, MD
Chapter 8: Apparently Non-Physical Veridical Perception in Near-Death Experiences
By Janice Miner Holden, EdD
Chapter 9: Near-Death Experiences in Children
By Penny Sartori, RN, PhD
Chapter 10: Distressing Near-Death Experiences: The Basics
By Nancy Evans Bush, MA & Bruce Greyson, MD
Chapter 11: Near-Death Experiences, The Mind-Body Debate & the Nature of Reality
By Eben Alexander, III, MD
Chapter 12: Neuroscience Perspectives on Near-Death Experiences
By Kevin Nelson, MD
Chapter 13: Near-Death Experiences & the Emerging Scientific View of Consciousness
By Eben Alexander, III, MD
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University of Missouri Press, 2017 Cloth: 978-0-8262-2103-2 eISBN: 978-0-8262-7368-0
What happens to consciousness during the act of dying? The most compelling answers come from people who almost die and later recall events that occurred while lifesaving resuscitation, emergency care, or surgery was performed. These events are now called near-death experiences (NDEs). As medical and surgical skills improve, innovative procedures can bring back patients who have traveled farther on the path to death than at any other time in history. Physicians and healthcare professionals must learn how to appropriately treat patients who report an NDE. It is estimated that more than 10 million people in the United States have experienced an NDE. Hagan and the contributors to this volume engage in evidence-based research on near-death experiences and include physicians who themselves have undergone a near-death experience. This book establishes a new paradigm for NDEs.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
John C. Hagan III, MD is a board certified ophthalmologist and was the founder of Midwest Eye Institute of Kansas City. He has published more than 140 scientific articles and designed several surgical instruments. He is the editor of Missouri Medicine: The Journal of the Missouri State Medical Association and lives in Kansas City, MO.
REVIEWS
“A subject currently the focus of intense public discussion, this book conveys a lot of important information in a very brief compass.”—Edward F. Kelly, University of Virginia, author of Beyond Physicalism: Toward Reconciliation of Science and Spirituality
“A landmark study of seemingly trascendent consciousness reported by patients who were revived after dying. Research into such experiences began with Greek philosophers, including Plato and Democritus, but Dr. Hagan's book will be the gold standard on this subject for years to come. The book brings together historical, philosophical, psychological, clinical and neuroscientific aspects of near-death experiences to illuminate one of the deepest mysteries of human existence.”—Raymond A. Moody, MD, PhD, author of Life After Life
“As editor of Missouri Medicine, the journal of the state medical association, Hagan resolved to put into words, as reasoned and rational as possible, what people in near-death states say they’ve experienced.”—The Kansas City Star
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Foreword: Raymond Moody, MD, PhD
Acknowledgments
About Missouri Medicine: The Journal of the Missouri State Medical Association
Introduction: The Science of Near-Death Experience: The Most Comprehensive Study In the World’s Medical Peer-reviewed Literature
By John C. Hagan III, MD
Getting Comfortable With Near-Death Experiences
Chapter 1: Near-Death Experiences: An Essay in Medicine & Philosophy
By Raymond A. Moody, MD, PhD
Chapter 2: An Overview of Near-Death Experiences
By Bruce Greyson, MD
Chapter 3: Out of One’s Mind or Beyond the Brain? The Challenge of Interpreting Near-Death Experiences
By Dean Radin, PhD
Chapter 4: Dutch Prospective Research on Near-Death Experiences During Cardiac Arrest
By Pim van Lommel, MD
Chapter 5: My Unimaginable Journey: A Physician’s Near-Death Experience
By Jean Renee Hausheer, MD
Chapter 6: My Near-Death Experience: A Call From God
By Tony Cicoria, MD & Jordan Cicoria
Chapter 7: Near-Death Experiences: Evidence for Their Reality
By Jeffrey Long, MD
Chapter 8: Apparently Non-Physical Veridical Perception in Near-Death Experiences
By Janice Miner Holden, EdD
Chapter 9: Near-Death Experiences in Children
By Penny Sartori, RN, PhD
Chapter 10: Distressing Near-Death Experiences: The Basics
By Nancy Evans Bush, MA & Bruce Greyson, MD
Chapter 11: Near-Death Experiences, The Mind-Body Debate & the Nature of Reality
By Eben Alexander, III, MD
Chapter 12: Neuroscience Perspectives on Near-Death Experiences
By Kevin Nelson, MD
Chapter 13: Near-Death Experiences & the Emerging Scientific View of Consciousness
By Eben Alexander, III, MD
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