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The Ethics and Value of Retaining Body Parts for a Forensic Post-mortem
Summary: The question of retaining body parts, whether during surgery or post-mortem, has been debated since the seventeenth century. The unclear legal status of a corpse together with a variety of cultural and spiritual views of significance of the dead body has brought controversy to the issue of using human tissue from the dead for research or medical training. The following essay covers the positive and negative aspects of body part retention, with ethical considerations and real-life cases.
"The ethics and value of retaining body parts for a forensic post-mortem. In your essay explain what the terms forensic post-mortem and ethics mean and discuss the positive and negative aspects of body part retention"
The retention of body parts has caused concern in many parts of the world. Whether the parts are retained during surgery or post-mortem it has been debated since the seventeenth century. The unclear legal status of the corpse together with a variety of cultural and spiritual views of significance of the dead body has lead to the use of human tissue from the dead for research or medical training to be controversial. Post-mortem can be described as being a medical examination that takes place after a death to determine the cause of death, also known as an autopsy.
The use of human tissue is vital to modern medicine, and as the body has...
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