★首個關於「心肺復甦」的重要歷史書籍。
★適合《傾聽死亡現場》、《All That Remains》和Netflix紀錄片「Surviving Death」的粉絲。

A thoroughly original history of resuscitation - from the 18th-century pioneers who blew smoke up the bottoms of the drowned to cutting-edge scientists reviving brains in the lab.

For most of history, only the gods could bring back the dead. Yet today, this is a skill that can be taught to schoolchildren. Thanks to the invention of resuscitation, millions of people around the world have died and come back to life - some with vivid memories of what they saw on the other side. This awesome, if unpredictable, science has transformed the way we think about God, death, consciousness and the soul.

Signs of Life tells the extraordinary story of humanity's quest to undo death. Beginning on a cold, dark night in 18th-century Rotterdam, with a drowned mother pulled from a canal, it moves through medieval miracle cults, bizarre Victorian experiments, the resuscitation of Abraham Lincoln, and the girl whose death mask became the most kissed face of all time.

We meet the Glaswegian pensioner who has saved more lives than anyone else in history, the neuroscientists trying to map the edges of consciousness, and the survivors who have travelled into death, and returned to tell their stories.

Jemima Lewis is a journalist and author. The former editor of The Week, she has a column in the Daily Telegraph, and has also written for The Times, the Guardian, Independent, the New Scientist and the Spectator. Her first book, co-authored with Henry Dimbleby, was the Sunday Times bestseller Ravenous: How to Get Ourselves and Our Planet into Shape.