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020 _a9781108633154 (ebook)
020 _z9781108484091 (hardback)
020 _z9781108735537 (paperback)
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_beng
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050 4 _aQM33.3.G7
_bH97 2021
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100 1 _aHurren, Elizabeth T.,
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aHidden histories of the dead :
_bdisputed bodies in modern British medical research /
_cElizabeth T. Hurren.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c2021.
300 _a1 online resource (xviii, 302 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Feb 2021).
506 _aOpen Access title.
520 _aIn 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.
650 0 _aHuman anatomy
_xStudy and teaching
_zGreat Britain
_xHistory.
650 0 _aHuman dissection
_zGreat Britain
_xHistory.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9781108484091
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/9781108633154
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