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

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Main Authors: Pfeffer, Naomi, 1946
Published: Yale University Press,
Publisher Address: New Haven, CT :
Publication Dates: [2017]
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Subjects:
Donation of organs, tissues, etc. > Moral and ethical aspects
Procurement of organs, tissues, etc. > Moral and ethical aspects
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. > Moral and ethical aspects
Undertakers and undertaking > Ethics
Tissue Banks > ethics
Tissue and Organ Procurement > legislation & jurisprudence
Tissue and Organ Harvesting > ethics
Mortuary Practice > ethics
Bioprospecting > ethics
Cadaver
United States
Great Britain
Carrier Form: xiii, 358 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780300118551 (hardback : alkaline paper) :
0300118554 (hardback : alkaline paper)
Index Number: RD129
CLC: R617-05
Call Number: R617-05/P524
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? -- Collecting British cadaver pituitary glands -- Lionizing American eye banks -- A gland lost is a gland wasted -- Who's in the mortuary? -- Representational dilemmas in

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