Hidden histories of the dead : : disputed bodies in modern British medical research / / Elizabeth T. Hurren.
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 thes...
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| Superior document: | Social Sciences |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Cambridge : : Cambridge University Press,, 2021. |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Social Sciences
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 302 pages) :; digital, PDF file(s). |
| Notes: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Feb 2021). |
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| 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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| ISBN: | 1108625339 1108620108 1108633153 |
| Access: | Open Access title. |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Elizabeth T. Hurren. |