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Hidden Histories of the Dead : Disputed Bodies in Modern British Medical Research, PDF eBook

Hidden Histories of the Dead : Disputed Bodies in Modern British Medical Research PDF

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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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