This was first published in 2000: This text explores issues surrounding the use of human cadavers and human tissues in science and medicine. This is an area of increasing significance in contemporary society, as more and more techniques become available for manipulating human genes and human material (including embryos, body organs and brain tissue). These issues are explored through case studies from contemporary society. Some of the most topical issues examined include plastination of human bodies as an art form, the use of biopsies from surgical operations, the ethics of using human DNA and stem cells in research, and the debate surrounding the transplantation of animal tissue and organs into humans.

D. Gareth Jones

1: Cadavers as Images of Ourselves; 2: History and Contemporary Ethos of Dissection; 3: Acceptable and Unacceptable Uses of Cadavers and Tissues; 4: Human Skeletal Remains: When Indigenous Concerns Conflict with Scientific Aspirations; 5: Organ and Tissue Transplantation: Further Uses of Cadavers; 6: Cadavers that May Not be Cadavers; 7: Uses of Human Embryos and Fetuses