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Insider trading : how mortuaries, medicine and money have built a global market in human cadaver parts / Naomi Pfeffer.

LIBRA RD129.5 .P453 2017
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Pfeffer, Naomi, 1946- author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Donation of organs, tissues, etc--Moral and ethical aspects.
Donation of organs, tissues, etc.
Procurement of organs, tissues, etc--Moral and ethical aspects.
Procurement of organs, tissues, etc.
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc--Moral and ethical aspects.
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.
Undertakers and undertaking--Ethics.
Undertakers and undertaking.
Ethics.
Tissue banks--Ethics.
Tissue banks.
United States.
Great Britain.
Tissue and Organ Procurement--legislation & jurisprudence.
Tissue and Organ Harvesting--ethics.
Bioprospecting--ethics.
Cadaver.
Medical Subjects:
Tissue and Organ Procurement--legislation & jurisprudence.
Tissue and Organ Harvesting--ethics.
Bioprospecting--ethics.
Cadaver.
Physical Description:
xiii, 358 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Place of Publication:
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2017]
Contents:
Skin donors-on-the-hoof
Pioneers of "eye banking"
"Doctor, I see you!" : marketing corpse philanthropy
Bioprospecting in mortuaries
The doctrinal tyranny of skin
Growth hormone soup
The American market for a growth-promoting substance
Civilian burns : prevention and treatment
Extending shelf life after death
Cadaver eyes, death denial and the British National Health Service
Whose corpse is it?
Establishing a collection of cadaver pituitary glands in British mortuaries
Lionizing American eye banks
A gland lost is a gland wasted
Who's in the mortuary?
Representational dilemmas in marketing eye pledges
Banking british cadaver skin
The burn-prone society
Harvesting the dead
Horse-trading in the mortuary
Value for money in American mortuaries
Financing high-value eye banks
Regulation is necessary, but how?
The blind eye act
Creating American hybrid extractors of cadaver stuff
Sharing pledges and cadaver stuff
Disregarding risk in plain sight
Ask, or don't ask : incoherence in collecting sites
Climbing up the value chain
Contagious corpses
British prions
Compassion and commerce
A roadmap for the future
Repairing the past
Globalizing the gift
Consolidation without cooperation
From mortuary to shopping cart?
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780300118551
0300118554
OCLC:
979534112

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