Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction ix
5. CHAPTER 1. Skin Donors- on- the- Hoof 1
6. CHAPTER 2. Pioneers of ‘Eye Banking’ 8
7. CHAPTER 3. ‘Doctor, I see you!’: Marketing Corpse Philanthropy 16
8. CHAPTER 4. Bioprospecting in Mortuaries 21
9. CHAPTER 5. The Doctrinal Tyranny of Skin 27
10. CHAPTER 6. Growth Hormone Soup 34
11. CHAPTER 7. The American Market for a Growth- promoting Substance 41
12. CHAPTER 8. Civilian Burns: Prevention and Treatment 48
13. CHAPTER 9. Extending Shelf Life After Death 56
14. CHAPTER 10. Cadaver Eyes, Death Denial and the National Health Service 66
15. CHAPTER 11. Whose Corpse Is It? 73
16. CHAPTER 12. Collecting British Cadaver Pituitary Glands 78
17. CHAPTER 13. Lionizing American Eye Banks 86
18. CHAPTER 14. A Gland Lost is a Gland Wasted 92
19. CHAPTER 15. Who’s in the Mortuary? 101
20. CHAPTER 16. Representational Dilemmas in Marketing Eye Pledges 107
21. CHAPTER 17. Banking British Cadaver Skin 119
22. CHAPTER 18. The Burn-prone Society 128
23. CHAPTER 19. Harvesting the Dead 139
24. CHAPTER 20. Horse-trading in the Mortuary 146
25. CHAPTER 21. Value for Money in American Mortuaries 154
26. CHAPTER 22. Financing High- volume Eye Banks 163
27. CHAPTER 23. Regulation is Necessary, but How? 171
28. CHAPTER 24. The Blind Eye Act 176
29. CHAPTER 25. Creating American Hybrid Extractors of Cadaver Stuff 183
30. CHAPTER 26. Sharing Pledges and Cadaver Stuff 190
31. CHAPTER 27. Iatrogenesis: Disregarding Risk in Plain Sight 199
32. CHAPTER 28. Ask, or Don’t Ask: Inconsistencies in Collecting Sites 207
33. CHAPTER 29. Climbing up the Value Chain 215
34. CHAPTER 30. Contagious Corpses 225
35. CHAPTER 31. British Prions 235
36. CHAPTER 32. Compassion and Commerce 244
37. CHAPTER 33. A Roadmap for the Future 252
38. CHAPTER 34. Repairing the Past 259
39. CHAPTER 35. Globalizing the Gift 266
40. CHAPTER 36. Consolidation without Cooperation 274
41. CHAPTER 37. From Mortuary to Shopping Cart? 282
42. Notes 287
43. Bibliography 322
44. Figure References 346
45. Index 348