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
• 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.; Note: Print version record.
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