The Science of Near-Death Experiences

"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."-- Provided by publisher 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 - John C. Hagan III, MD, FACS, FAAO Chapter One. Near-Death Experiences: An Essay in Medicine & Philosophy - Raymond A. Moody, MD, PhD Chapter Two. An Overview of Near-Death Experiences - Bruce Greyson, MD Chapter Three. Out of One’s Mind or Beyond the Brain?: The Challenge of Interpreting Near-Death Experiences - Dean Radin, PhD Chapter Four. Dutch Prospective Research on Near-Death Experiences during Cardiac Arrest - Pim van Lommel, MD Chapter Five. My Unimaginable Journey: A Physician’s Near-Death Experience - Jean Renee Hausheer, MD Chapter Six. My Near-Death Experience: A Call from God - Tony Cicoria, MD, & Jordan Cicoria Chapter Seven. Near-Death Experiences: Evidence for Their Reality - Jeffrey Long, MD Chapter Eight. Apparently Non-Physical Veridical Perception in Near-Death Experiences - Janice Miner Holden, EdD Chapter Nine. Through the Eyes of a Child Near-Death Experiences in the Young - Penny Sartori, RN, PhD Chapter Ten. Distressing Near-Death Experiences: The Basics - Nancy Evans Bush, MA, & Bruce Greyson, MD Chapter Eleven. Near-Death Experiences: The Mind-Body Debate & the Nature of Reality - Eben Alexander III, MD Chapter Twelve. Neuroscience Perspectives on Near-Death Experiences - Kevin Nelson, MD Chapter Thirteen. Near-Death Experiences and the Emerging Scientific View of Consciousness - Eben Alexander III, MD Contributors Notes Index As medical and surgical skills improve, innovative procedures can bring back patients who have travelled farther on the path to death than at any other time in history. 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.