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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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