How heart transplants gave birth to brain death (new book by Basil Baccouche)

 Basil Baccouche has a forthcoming book, which I found pretty thrilling:

The End of Death: A Surgeon, a Heart Transplant, and the Fight to Change What It Means to Die

 

Here's my blurb for the book:

 “Basil Baccouche is a new star in the constellation of physicians who write. The End of Death tells the gripping story of a tireless doctor (Norman Shumway), a drug (cyclosporine), and a law (recognizing brain death) that combined to make heart transplants one of the miracles of modern medicine.”