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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
February 2021
Print publication year:
2021
Online ISBN:
9781108633154
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Book description

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.

Reviews

‘This is an exceptional book. Incredibly well researched, exhaustive and compelling, Hurren engages powerfully with the shifting ethics of anatomical ‘ownership’, identity and use and brings to the fore the complex history and status of the corpse. As Hurren demonstrates, these issues are as pressing now as they were in the last three hundred years or so.’

Julie-Marie Strange - Professor in Modern British History, Durham University

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Contents

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  • Hidden Histories of the Dead
    pp i-ii
  • Hidden Histories of the Dead - Title page
    pp iii-iii
  • Disputed Bodies in Modern British Medical Research
  • Copyright page
    pp iv-iv
  • Dedication
    pp v-vi
  • Contents
    pp vii-vii
  • Illustrations
    pp viii-ix
  • Figures
    pp x-xi
  • Tables
    pp xii-xii
  • Acknowledgements
    pp xiii-xv
  • Abbreviations
    pp xvi-xvii
  • Ethical Note
    pp xviii-xviii
  • Part I - Relocating the Dead-End
    pp 1-100
  • Introduction: A Consignment for the Cul-de-Sac of History?
    pp 3-19
  • 1 - Disputed Bodies and Their Hidden Histories
    pp 20-48
  • 2 - Res Nullius – Nobody’s Thing
    pp 49-70
  • 3 - The Ministry of Offal
    pp 71-100
  • Part II - Disputing Deadlines
    pp 101-250
  • 4 - Implicit Disputes
    pp 103-149
  • Mapping Systems of Implied Consent
  • 5 - Explicit Disputes
    pp 150-204
  • ‘The Balance of Probability’ in Coronial Cases
  • 6 - Missed Disputes
    pp 205-250
  • Brainstorming Neuroscience
  • Part III - Death Sentences Delayed
    pp 251-273
  • 7 - Conclusion
    pp 253-273
  • Flesh Is a Dead Format? – Remapping the ‘Human Atlas’
  • Bibliography
    pp 274-294
  • Index
    pp 295-302

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