Elizabeth T. Hurren, "Hidden Histories of the Dead: Disputed Bodies in Modern British Medical Research" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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What Are the Types of Disputs?
The body enters a medical research culture or teaching culture depending on what's happening to the body. At this point, and this was very common in the 1950s, consent is implied, but it's never really documented for the bereaved. And once you've done a kind of implied consent process, you can then potentially have an implicit dispute that can arise. This would be typically where a family thought that a body was going for a postmortem to check just on how the loved one died. What they didn't know was all the other things that were done around that process. The coroner has very extensive powers as you would appreciate and it's quite right that they do. They have to decide
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