Elizabeth T. Hurren, "Hidden Histories of the Dead: Disputed Bodies in Modern British Medical Research" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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How Do You Write a Story?
I was wondering if you could speak a little bit as well to kind of how you approach that sort of writing. I think that's worth raising, sort of as a follow up, because you're sensitive about the data and the confidentiality but also in how you tell stories of individual people throughout the book. The historian has a duty, they have a medical ethics and I guess I come back to the Hippocratic oath actually I sometimes ask myself, will this do no harm, that's the basis of medicine itself, I think historians sometimes have to ask themselves a question too.
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