Hidden Histories of the Dead

Disputed Bodies in Modern British Medical Research

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Hurren, Elizabeth T.
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English
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Abstract
This discipline-redefining study of secretive British medical research cultures after World War Two retraces the harvesting and recycling of bodies and body-parts for tissue culture and pathology labs, transplantation surgery facilities, brain banks, and dissection teaching spaces between 1945 and 2000. This title is also available as Open Access.
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https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/90883
Keywords
history of medicine; history of science; history of the body; twentieth-century Britain; medical humanities
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10.1017/9781108633154
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9781108633154, 9781108484091
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Cambridge University Press
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2021
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Social Sciences,
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History of medicine
History of science
Philosophy of science
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