Elizabeth T. Hurren, "Hidden Histories of the Dead: Disputed Bodies in Modern British Medical Research" (Cambridge UP, 2021)
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Biomedical Ethics - The Transition From Ownership to Responsibility
From the 1990s onwards, there had to be a recognition and it was a painful one for many areas of the culture of medicine to move into an ethics of responsibility. You don't have a proprietorial sense over the body anymore, you have a custodial sense you are a custodian of the knowledge you're holding it in trust. It's still fulfilling that very important agenda that you're looking for those major breakthroughs for humanity but a custodian never has a sense of ownership,. they are handing it down through generations. They mentality had to transition to this ethics of responsibility which is what I've tried to show really with my book 'The Ethic Of Responsibility'
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