TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hurren,Elizabeth T.
TI  - Hidden histories of the dead: disputed bodies in modern British medical research 
SN  - 9781108633154 (ebook)
AV  - QM33.3.G7 H97 2021
U1  - 611/.00711/42 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Human anatomy
KW  - Study and teaching
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - Human dissection
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Feb 2021); Open Access title
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108633154
ER  -