Insider trading : how mortuaries, medicine and money have built a global market in human cadaver parts /: how mortuaries, medicine and money have built a global market in human cadaver parts. ([2017])
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Insider trading : how mortuaries, medicine and money have built a global market in human cadaver parts /: how mortuaries, medicine and money have built a global market in human cadaver parts. ([2017])
- Main Title:
- Insider trading : how mortuaries, medicine and money have built a global market in human cadaver parts
- Further Information:
- Note: Naomi Pfeffer.
- Authors:
- Pfeffer, Naomi, 1946-
- 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 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?
- Publisher Details:
- New Haven : Yale University Press
- Publication Date:
- 2017
- Copyright Date:
- 2017
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 358 pages), illustrations, map
- Subjects:
- 174.2/97954
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
Dead
Donation of organs, tissues, etc -- Moral and ethical aspects
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc -- Moral and ethical aspects
United States
Great Britain
United States
United Kingdom
Great Britain
United States - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9780300227185
0300227183 - Related ISBNs:
- 9780300118551
- Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.776053
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