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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.
- Author
- Pfeffer, Naomi, 1946-
- Publication
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2017]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | RD129.5 .P453 2017 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xiii, 358 pages : illustrations, map; 24 cm
- Subject
- 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
- Tissue Banks > ethics
- United States
- Great Britain
- United Kingdom
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references 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? -- 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?
- ISBN
- 9780300118551
- 0300118554
- LCCN
- 2017013302
- OCLC
- ocn979534112
- 979534112
- SCSB-14174625
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries