Book ID: CBB995981550

Hidden Histories of the Dead: Disputed Bodies in Modern British Medical Research (2021)

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Hurren, Elizabeth T. (Author)


Cambridge University Press


Publication Date: 2021
Physical Details: 350
Language: English

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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Authors & Contributors
Tafuri, Domenico
Tinne Claes
Monza, Francesca
Ciliberti, Rosagemma
Binney, Nicholas
Vaccarezza, Mauro
Concepts
Human anatomy
Human body
Dissection
Medicine
Medical education and teaching
Medicine and ethics
Time Periods
21st century
20th century
19th century
16th century
20th century, late
18th century
Places
Italy
United States
Great Britain
Bologna (Italy)
Scotland
Europe
Institutions
National Institute of Health (U.S.)
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