| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 302 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Note |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's website, viewed March 18, 2021). |
| Summary |
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. This title is also available as Open Access. |
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Dead.
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Procurement of organs, tissues, etc. -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Medicine -- Research -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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Medicine -- Research -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Great Britain.
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Medicine -- Research -- 20th century -- Moral and ethical aspects.
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| ISBN |
9781108484091 (Hardback) |
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1108484093 (Hardback) |
| Standard No. |
10.1017/9781108633154 doi |
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