Hidden histories of the dead : disputed bodies in modern British medical research / Elizabeth T. Hurren.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hurren, Elizabeth T., author.

Series:

Social Sciences

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human anatomy--Study and teaching--Great Britain--History.

Human anatomy.

Human dissection--Great Britain--History.

Human dissection.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 302 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

Cover

Half-title page

Title page

Copyright page

Dedication

Contents

List of Illustrations

List of Figures

List of Tables

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Ethical Note

Part I Relocating the Dead-End

Introduction: A Consignment for the Cul-de-Sac of History?

1 Disputed Bodies and Their Hidden Histories

2 Res Nullius - Nobody's Thing

3 The Ministry of Offal

Part II Disputing Deadlines

4 Implicit Disputes: Mapping Systems of Implied Consent

5 Explicit Disputes: 'The Balance of Probability' in Coronial Cases

6 Missed Disputes: Brainstorming Neuroscience

Part III Death Sentences Delayed

7 Conclusion: Flesh Is a Dead Format? - Remapping the 'Human Atlas'

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Feb 2021).

ISBN:

9781108625333

1108625339

9781108620109

1108620108

9781108633154

1108633153

OCLC:

1240519270