Hidden Histories of the Dead Disputed Bodies in Modern British Medical Research

• Päätekijä: Hurren, Elizabeth T. (auth)
• Aineistotyyppi: Elektroninen Kirjan osa
• Kieli: englanti
• Julkaistu: Cambridge University Press 2021
• Sarja: Social Sciences
• Aiheet: History of medicine; History of science; Philosophy of science; history of medicine; history of science; history of the body; twentieth-century Britain; medical humanities
• Linkit: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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 2...