Returning to the Alder Hey report and its reporting: addressing confusions and improving inquiries

Dewar, Steve; Boddington, Paula

doi:10.1136/jme.2002.002774

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“…The controversy over the use of the removal of organs from the bodies of children who had died during surgery and of stillborn infants and fetuses at Alder Hey Hospital in Liverpool, England, for medical research is one such instance of competing concepts of personhood that circulated among, in this case, medical personnel and parents (Dewar 2004). In contrast to the general trend in childhood studies, this chapter argues that the child is ontologically different to adults.…”

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Identities and Subjectivities

Worth¹,

Dwyer²,

Skelton³

2016

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Geographies of Children and Young People is a Major Reference Work comprising 12 volumes that pulls together the best international reflective and innovative scholarship focusing on younger people. Volumes 1 and 2 establish and critically engage with the theoretical, conceptual, and methodological groundings of this geographical sub-discipline. Volumes 3-11 provide in depth thematic analysis of key topical areas pertinent to children's and young people's lives: space, place and environment; identities and subjectivities; families and peer groups; movement and mobilities; politics and citizenship; global issues and change; play and well-being; learning and labouring; conflict and peace. Volume 12 connects both academic, policy, and practitioner based work around protection and provision.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 95%

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Dwyer²,

Skelton³

2016

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“…In addition, financial considerations associated with maintaining bottled specimens, the shortage of storage space, and the demand for space for new modern teaching facilities may have contributed to the reduced reliance on pathology specimens. Furthermore, consent for the retention of organs has been a major consideration since the publicity surrounding the baby organ scandal associated with a pathologist working at the Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool UK in the early 1990s, where organs were kept for teaching purposes without parental consent (Dewar and Boddington 2004). This scandal led to the tightening of the Human Tissue Act and all research associated with human tissues in the UK.…”

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The reproduction of human pathology specimens using three-dimensional (3D) printing technology for teaching purposes

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The teaching of medical pathology has undergone significant change in the last 30-40 years, especially in the context of employing bottled specimens or 'pots' in classroom settings. The reduction in post-mortem based teaching in medical training programs has resulted in less focus being placed on the ability of students to describe the gross anatomical pathology of specimens. Financial considerations involved in employing staff to maintain bottled specimens, space constraints and concerns with health and safety of staff and student laboratories have meant that many institutions have decommissioned their pathology collections. This report details how fullcolour surface scanning coupled with CT scanning and 3 D printing allows the digital archiving of gross pathological specimens and the production of reproductions or replicas of preserved human anatomical pathology specimens that obviates many of the above issues. With modern UV curable resin printing technology, it is possible to achieve photographic quality accurate replicas comparable to the original specimens in many aspects except haptic quality. Accurate 3 D reproductions of human pathology specimens offer many advantages over traditional bottled specimens including the capacity to generate multiple copies and their use in any educational setting giving access to a broader range of potential learners and users.

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“…In developing this theme, journalists drew on and further developed horror imagery and language used in the Redfern Report itself (Dewar and Boddington 2003). First, a number of terms acted as 'metacommentary' in explicitly characterising the story for readers.…”

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Commodification of Body Parts: By Medicine or by Media?

2006

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Commentators frequently point to the involvement of biomedicine and bioscience in the objectification and commodification of human body parts and the consequent potential for violation of personal, social and community meanings. Through a study of UK media coverage of controversies associated with the removal of body parts and human materials from children, we argue that an exclusive emphasis on the role of medicine and the biosciences in the commodification of human materials ignores the important role played by commercially motivated mass media organisations. Analysis of the language of news reports covering the period of the organ retention controversies in the UK reveals the ways in which the mass media contribute to the commodification of body parts by recruiting them for use in the manufacture of a media scandal. This is achieved through use of horror language, the fetishisation of certain body parts, emphasis on the fragmentation of the body, and the use of a variety of rhetorical devices to convey enormity and massive scale. Media participation in the commodification of children's body parts has profound implications for practices and policies in relation to use of body parts, and has significantly influenced the governmental regulation of science and medicine. The role of mass media deserves fuller recognition by theorists of body commodification.

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Returning to the Alder Hey report and its reporting: addressing confusions and improving inquiries

Cited by 23 publications

References 3 publications

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The reproduction of human pathology specimens using three-dimensional (3D) printing technology for teaching purposes

Commodification of Body Parts: By Medicine or by Media?

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