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Insider trading : how mortuaries, medicine and money have built a global market in human cadaver parts
Title
Insider trading : how mortuaries, medicine and money have built a global market in human cadaver parts / Naomi Pfeffer.
ISBN
9780300118551
0300118554
Publication
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2017]
Physical Description
xiii, 358 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 18, 2017
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 322-345) and index.
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?
Subjects
Subjects (Medical)
Tissue and Organ Procurement - legislation & jurisprudence.
Tissue and Organ Harvesting - ethics.
Bioprospecting - ethics.
Cadaver.
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