Stories
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The island of unclaimed bodies
In New York, those who live and die on the extreme edges of society are buried on an isolated island, often forgotten and unmourned. But recent legal changes aim to reduce stigma and restore their dignity.
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Drawing the human animal
We might try to deny our animal instincts, but this series of extraordinary 17th-century drawings suggests they are only too apparent.
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The intermediate life of spirits
Courttia Newland explores the events and his feelings surrounding the death of his mother-in-law, Tara Chauhan.
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The conditional child
Deanna Fei asks what it means to sustain a life, drawing on her own experience of having a premature baby as well as an 18th-century essay.
Catalogue
- Books
Bioequity : property and the human body / Nils Hoppe.
Hoppe, Nils.Date: [2009], ©2009- Videos
Secrets of the body snatchers.
Date: 2014- Books
The legal, medical and cultural regulation of the body : transformation and transgression / edited by Stephen W. Smith, Ronan Deazley.
Date: [2009], ©2009- Books
Posthumous interests : legal and ethical perspectives / Daniel Sperling.
Sperling, Daniel, 1974-Date: 2008- Books
Human bodies, human choices : the law on human organs and tissue in England and Wales : a consultation report.
Date: 2002