Hidden histories of the dead: disputed bodies in modern British medical research
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021
Online
Monographie, Elektronische Ressource
- 1 online resource (xviii, 302 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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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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Hidden histories of the dead: disputed bodies in modern British medical research
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Verantwortlichkeitsangabe: | Elizabeth T. Hurren |
Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Hurren, Elizabeth T. [author.] |
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Veröffentlichung: | Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021 |
Medientyp: | Monographie |
Datenträgertyp: | Elektronische Ressource |
Umfang: | 1 online resource (xviii, 302 pages) : digital, PDF file(s). |
ISBN: | 1-108-62533-9; 1-108-62010-8; 1-108-63315-3 |
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