Showing posts with label cadavers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cadavers. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 5, 2023

Organ & Body Donations: John Oliver

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Laugh through the tears with John Oliver:
Monday, August 28, 2023

Unclaimed bodies and medical school anatomy classes.

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 There's a long history of unclaimed bodies being used in medical school anatomy classes. (I think the historical availability of such c...
Saturday, July 16, 2022

Legal and illegal sales of body parts

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 U.S. law makes it illegal to sell deceased donor organs for transplant, i.e. to save a life, but it's otherwise legal to sell body part...
Saturday, January 12, 2019

Non-transplant tissue banks

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The Brown Political Review (a student publication at Brown University) takes a look at the lightly regulated market for cadavers and body p...
Monday, February 5, 2018

Cadavers and the slave trade

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The NY Times has an article on the intersection of the slave trade in the United States with the market for cadavers for anatomy classes in...
Friday, November 10, 2017

Buying body parts is easy, as long as you don't use them for transplants

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Cashing in on the donated dead: The Body Trade A REUTERS SERIES Part 1: When Americans leave their bodies to science, they are also dona...
Monday, July 3, 2017

Cadavers and the teaching of anatomy

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Hektoen International, A journal of medical humanities has several articles motivated by Rembrandt's painting of The Anatomy Lesson of ...
Sunday, October 30, 2016

Tissue transplants and tissue banks

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Solid organ donation gets more press, but tissue transplants and medical devices made from human tissue are big business. Here's a prof...
Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Happy 500th birthday to Vesalius

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Andreas Vesalius , son of an apothecary to Emperor Maximillian and to Charles V, was born in Brussels on December 31, 1514. and this : ...
Monday, March 10, 2014

Society for Mutual Autopsy: Nineteenth Century solution to the cadaver shortage for anatomy studies

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Michael Webster directs my attention to this post about  The Society of Mutual Autopsy , a society formed to supply cadavers for more, and ...
Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Organs and tissue markets and black markets

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NPR has a series of posts on tissue donation, which includes bones and sinews, and for which there's a regulated market, but also a blac...
Friday, August 3, 2012

Anatomist and grave robber

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His biographer writes about The Beauty of Bodysnatching: Astley Cooper (1768–1841), an English surgeon and anatomist, is remembered for his ...
Tuesday, July 31, 2012

Priority for organ donation in the UK?

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Britain's National Health Service is conducting a survey as part of an assessment of possible changes to its methods of acquiring and a...
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Saturday, February 18, 2012

Markets for cadavers

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ABC news has an 18 minute video on the market for cadavers used in recent popular anatomy exhibits. They conclude that many of these are obt...
Thursday, June 30, 2011

Medical education in Paris in the 1830's--cheap cadavers

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Lewis Lapham discusses David McCullough's “The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris." Cadavers at $2.50 Lured Americans to 1830s P...
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Thursday, September 2, 2010

Organ Allocation Policy and the Decision to Donate

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That's the title of a paper that Judd Kessler and I recently finished, motivated by one aspect of organ donation in Singapore (and rece...
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Thursday, August 26, 2010

The regulated market for cemeteries

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The NY Times reports, City Cemeteries Face Gridlock . "More than 50 years have passed since a major cemetery was established within t...
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Wednesday, April 21, 2010

BBC on Suppliers of Human Bodies

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The BBC has aired a 20 minute piece on Suppliers of Human Bodies . You can listen to it here . The first interviewee is my HBS colleague Mic...
Saturday, April 3, 2010

Presumed consent and deceased donor organ donation

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Kim Krawiec writes : "Duke sociologist (and Crooked Timber blogger) Kieran Healy visited my Taboo Trades and Forbidden Markets semin...
Sunday, January 24, 2010

Commodification of the body, in Economic Sociology

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The November 2009 issue of Economic Sociology , The European Electronic Newsletter , is largely devoted to discussion of "commodificati...