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

The cadaver industry in Britain and the United States, its processes and profits: Except for organ transplantation little is known about the variety of stuff extracted from corpses and repurposed for medicine. A single body might be disassembled to provide hundreds of products for the millions of me...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Pfeffer, Naomi, 1946- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, [2017]
Temas:
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.
Dead.
Tissue and Organ Procurement > legislation & jurisprudence
Tissue and Organ Harvesting > ethics
Mortuary Practice > ethics
Bioprospecting > ethics
Cadaver
Tissue Banks > ethics
Dons d'organes, de tissus, etc. > Gestion > Aspect moral.
Greffe (Chirurgie) > Aspect moral.
Banques de tissus > Morale.
Morts.
MEDICAL > Ethics.
United States.
Great Britain.
United States
United Kingdom
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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 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 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
  • Iatrogenesis : Disregarding risk in plain sight
  • Ask, or don't ask : inconsistencies 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?

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