With the ongoing and expanding use of willed bodies in medical education and research,
there has been a concomitant rise in the need for willed bodies and an increase in the …

New technological developments have frequently had major consequences for anatomy
education, and have raised ethical queries for anatomy educators. The advent of three …

Recent developments in biotechnology allow for the generation of increasingly complex
products out of human tissues, for example, human stem cell lines, synthetic embryo-like …

Human anatomy lives at the interface between its dependence upon high quality dead
human bodies for use in teaching and research, and the need to show respect for the …

In China as elsewhere in the world, human bodies and body parts have long been used for
a wide range of medical and non‐medical purposes. In recent decades, China has played a …

In this thesis I offer an account of the work that Medical School Anatomy Unit staff (AUS) do
with the families of body donors in the UK after donor death. Body donation (BD) is the …

This research assesses the ethical conundrums that have arisen as to whether and under
which circumstances the commercialisation of human body parts—precisely, kidneys—can …

This interdisciplinary thesis brings together a Derridean reading of JM Coetzee's 1999 novel
Disgrace and my own clinical experience of working as a doctor, to examine how the fetal …

In this paper, I discuss the moral justification for the commodification of the human body. I
address this issue by first engaging with legal and bioethical documents and declarations. I …

The human body is an intrinsic object dealt with in Medicine, yet several bioethical
perspectives neglect it. This body, according to various theories, is and rightly should be …