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Hidden histories of the dead : disputed bodies in modern British medical research

In this discipline-redefining book, Elizabeth T. Hurren maps the post-mortem journeys of bodies, body-parts, organs, and brains, inside the secretive culture of modern British medical research after WWII as the bodies of the deceased were harvested as bio-commons. Often the human stories behind these bodies were dissected, discarded, or destroyed in death. Hidden Histories of the Dead recovers human faces and supply-lines in the archives that medical science neglected to acknowledge. It investigates the medical ethics of organ donation, the legal ambiguities of a lack of fully-informed consent and the shifting boundaries of life and re-defining of medical death in a biotechnological era. Hurren reveals the implicit, explicit and missed body disputes that took second-place to the economics of the national and international commodification of human material in global medical sciences of the Genome era.

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174.20941 HUR h
Publisher
United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press.,
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xvii, 322 p. ; ill
Language
English
ISBN/ISSN
9781108633154
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174.20941
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Subject(s)
Medicine--Research--Moral and ethical aspects
Non-heart-beating organ donation
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