Hidden histories of the dead disputed bodies in modern British medical research
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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press
2021.
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| Series: | Social Sciences
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009645333306719 |
| 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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| Item Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Feb 2021). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xviii, 302 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
| ISBN: | 9781108625333 9781108620109 9781108633154 |
