[DOWNLOAD] "Hidden Histories of the Dead" by Elizabeth T. Hurren * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
eBook details
- Title: Hidden Histories of the Dead
- Author : Elizabeth T. Hurren
- Release Date : January 25, 2021
- Genre: Medical,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 16226 KB
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.