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----------------------------------------------- Raising the (Apparently) Dead A partial and eclectic history of resuscitation techniques. by, Meera Lee Sethi 07 October 2009 Long before CPR or the appropriate application of defibrillators, medical experts were doing their damnedest to bring back the dead. In celebration of Inkling’s own revival, the approach of Halloween and—of course—our particular fondness for non-scientific science—we bring you a historical overview of these heroic, and often woefully misguided, pursuits.  Throughout most of human history, any case of successful resuscitation was credited not to human ingenuity, but to divine intervention. No one but Death himself, it was thought, could relinquish his iron grip upon the dead. Despite this, human ingenuity flourished. We have a long and glorious history of shocking and… http://www.inklingmagazine.com/articles/death-without-dignity/

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