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Autore: |
Hurren Elizabeth T.
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Titolo: |
Hidden histories of the dead : disputed bodies in modern British medical research / / Elizabeth T. Hurren
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Pubblicazione: | Cambridge University Press, 2021 |
Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2021 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xviii, 302 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
Disciplina: | 611/.00711/42 |
Soggetto topico: | Human anatomy - Study and teaching - Great Britain - History |
Human dissection - Great Britain - History | |
Dead bodies (Law) - Great Britain | |
Medicine - Research - Moral and ethical aspects - Great Britain | |
Non-heart-beating organ donation - Great Britain - History - 20th century | |
Soggetto non controllato: | history of medicine |
history of science | |
history of the body | |
twentieth-century Britain | |
medical humanities | |
Note generali: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Feb 2021). |
Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Hidden histories of the dead ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-108-62533-9 |
1-108-62010-8 | |
1-108-63315-3 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910585961303321 |
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