Over my dead body

• Jones, Gareth ^[1]
  1. [1] University of Otago

     University of Otago

     Nueva Zelanda

     
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2965, 2014, págs. 26-27
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Jones comments on the use of unclaimed bodies in medical science that is an unethical blot on modern anatomy. In recent years, the hugely successful public exhibitions of human cadavers preserved by plastination have brought this issue to public attention, and the use of unclaimed bodies has been alleged in some cases. Although the highest profile of these exhibitions, BodyWorlds, says it uses only bequeathed bodies, this might not be the case with some competitors. The absence of informed consent creates an ethical vacuum that is open to abuse. The most extreme example was during the 1930s and 1940s, when the use of unclaimed bodies reached its peak in Germany and its occupied territories under the Nazi regime. The bodies of those sentenced to death, as well as those from concentration camps, prisons and psychiatric institutions, provided a prolific supply for research and teaching in anatomy departments