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    The contested realm of displaying dead bodies
    with Maja I. Whitaker
    Journal of Medical Ethics 39 (10): 652-653. 2013.
    The Viewpoint article expressed the feelings of unease often encountered at the display of human corpses in museums, whether relating to prehistoric or recent times. The reasons frequently stem from what is seen as a lack of respect for the remains of another human being. In this instance, the underlying concerns are that the corpses are displayed naked, along with lack of consent from anyone with an interest in them. While these are legitimate queries, ethical interests extend further afield to…Read more
  •  25
    Before I was an embryo, I was a pre-embryo: Or was I?
    with Barbara Telfer
    Bioethics 9 (1). 1995.
    Issues surrounding human embryos are poignant and profound. Should research be conducted on them? Should they be discarded? Should they be donated to infertile couples? The Warnock Report was a landmark in providing guidelines limiting experimentation on human embryos to the first 14 days after fertilization, at which time implantation of the embryo is complete and the primitive streak has appeared.2 However, these embryological features were not considered sufficiently distinctive to bestow upo…Read more
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    The furore over the retention of organs at postmortem examination, without adequate consent, has led to a reassessment of the justification for, and circumstances surrounding, the retention of any human material after postmortem examinations and operations. This brings into focus the large amount of human material stored in various archives and museums, much of which is not identifiable and was accumulated many years ago, under unknown circumstances. Such anonymous archival material could be dis…Read more
  • The dead human body : reflections of an anatomist
    In Alastair V. Campbell, Voo Teck Chuan, Richard Huxtable & N. S. Peart (eds.), Healthcare ethics, law and professionalism: essays on the works of Alastair V. Campbell, Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group. 2018.
  •  6
    Speaking for the Dead: The Human Body in Biology and Medicine
    with Maja I. Whitaker
    Routledge. 2009.
    Speaking for the Dead is an incisive examination of the controversial issues surrounding the use of human cadavers in scientific research. Fully revised and updated to include recent developments in this area, this new edition incorporates the repeated organ scandals in the UK, body parts scandals in the United States, and the abuses of bodies in China.As many more techniques become available for the manipulation of human cadavers, Gareth Jones' clearly written and informative examination will m…Read more
  •  7
    The dependence of surgical training programmes on the supply of bodies by for-profit organisations places them at serious ethical risk. These risks, with their commodification of the bodies used in the programme, are outlined. It is concluded that this is not a satisfactory model for the trainees’ subsequent interaction with living patients and that a code of practice is required.
  • The Political Debate on Embryo Research in New Zealand and the Role of Religious Actors and Arguments
    In Mirjam Weiberg-Salzmann & Ulrich Willems (eds.), Religion and Biopolitics, Springer Verlag. pp. 139-159. 2019.
    Embryo research is currently not allowed in New Zealand, although it is not prohibited by the Human Assisted Reproductive Technology Act. The unusualness of this legislative stance is accentuated by the ready availability of in vitro fertilization and pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, both of which are deemed to be established procedures. Embryo research could, in principle, be approved by the Minister of Health acting on a recommendation by the Advisory Committee on Assisted Reproductive Tech…Read more
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    Confucianism and organ donation: moral duties from xiao (filial piety) to ren (humaneness)
    with Jing-Bao Nie
    Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 22 (4): 583-591. 2019.
    There exists a serious shortage of organs for transplantation in China, more so than in most Western countries. Confucianism has been commonly used as the cultural and ethical reason to explain the reluctance of Chinese and other East-Asian people to donate organs for medical purposes. It is asserted that the Confucian emphasis on xiao (filial piety) requires individuals to ensure body intactness at death. However, based on the original texts of classical Confucianism and other primary materials…Read more
  •  16
    Religious Traditions and Embryo Science
    with Maja Whitaker
    American Journal of Bioethics 9 (11): 41-43. 2009.
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    Finding a Context for Discussing Human Life-Extension
    with Maja Whitaker
    American Journal of Bioethics 9 (12): 77-79. 2009.
  •  16
    The tenuous world of plastinates
    with Maja I. Whitaker
    American Journal of Bioethics 7 (4). 2007.
    No abstract
  •  12
    Is Multiple Authorship in Conceptual Bioethics Ethically Sustainable?
    American Journal of Bioethics 11 (10). 2011.
    The American Journal of Bioethics, Volume 11, Issue 10, Page 30-32, October 2011
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    I See Dead People: Insights From the Humanities Into the Nature of Plastinated Cadavers (review)
    with Mike R. King and Maja I. Whitaker
    Journal of Medical Humanities 35 (4): 361-376. 2014.
    Accounts from the humanities which focus on describing the nature of whole body plastinates are examined. We argue that this literature shows that plastinates do not clearly occupy standard cultural binary categories of interior or exterior, real or fake, dead or alive, bodies or persons, self or other and argue that Noël Carroll’s structural framework for horrific monsters unites the various accounts of the contradictory or ambiguous nature of plastinates while also showing how plastinates diff…Read more
  •  15
    Neuroethics: Adrift from a Clinical Base
    American Journal of Bioethics 8 (1): 49-50. 2008.
    This Article does not have an abstract