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Elizabeth T. Hurren, "Hidden Histories of the Dead: Disputed Bodies in Modern British Medical Research" (Cambridge UP, 2021)

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The Ethics of Conviction

The Human Tissue Act of 2005 was passed after a number of inquiries. It acknowledged that ownership of the body had largely been about what I would have called Propriatorial Medical Ethics. By conviction, you believed your clinical output must take absolutely a priority. Others were about people's pursuit of their own research interests and the conviction that they owned that body. The legislation itself also ran by an ethics of conviction and ethics of proprietorial use of the body.

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