Insider trading : how mortuaries, medicine and money have built a global market in human cadaver parts / Naomi Pfeffer.

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2017]

xiii, 358 pages : black and white illustrations, maps, charts ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-344) and index.

Skin donors-on-the-hoof -- Pioneers of "eye banking" -- "Doctor, I see you!" : marketing corpse philanthropy -- Bioprospecting in mortuaries -- The doctrinal tyranny of skin -- Growth hormone soup -- The American market for a growth-promoting substance -- Civilian burns : prevention and treatment -- Extending shelf life after death -- Cadaver eyes, death denial and the British National Health Service -- Whose corpse is it? -- Collecting British cadaver pituitary glands -- Lionizing American eye banks -- A gland lost is a gland wasted -- Who's in the mortuary? -- Representational dilemmas in marketing eye pledges -- Banking british cadaver skin -- The burn-prone society -- Harvesting the dead -- Horse-trading in the mortuary -- Value for money in American mortuaries -- Financing high-value eye banks -- Regulation is necessary, but how? -- The blind eye act -- Creating American hybrid extractors of cadaver stuff -- Sharing pledges and cadaver stuff -- Iatrogenesis: Disregarding risk in plain sight -- Ask, or don't ask : inconsistencies in collecting sites -- Climbing up the value chain -- Contagious corpses -- British prions -- Compassion and commerce -- A roadmap for the future -- Repairing the past -- Globalizing the gift -- Consolidation without cooperation -- From mortuary to shopping cart?