The Donation of Organs for Transplantation: the Donor Families

Robbins, Margaret

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“…10 Other studies suggest that donation changes the grief rather than making it any less, 2 some families acknowledging that donation had added to their stress, although this was accepted for the sake of the recipients. 11 This was echoed in this study.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 62%

“…Several studies have investigated the particular issue of donation of the eyes with multiorgan donor families. 2,11,13 Aesthetics or the concern that the deceased would need the eyes in an afterlife were amongst reasons cited for refusal. It is thought that the fear in popular culture of mutilatio n of the body extends to the mutilation of the deceased's beauty, identity or personhood by removal of the eyes.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The experiences of donor families in the hospice

Carey

Forbes

2003

Palliat Med

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Corneal donation is possible for patients dying from cancer. This study indicates that it is generally regarded positively by donor family members. Education of the public and health professionals is necessary to highlight both the eligibility criteria and the need for donation. Families should be encouraged to discuss donation to facilitate respecting individuals' wishes. In the absence of a known decision from the deceased, health professionals should be aware of their responsibility to discuss the issue with the family.

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The experiences of donor families in the hospice

Carey

Forbes

2003

Palliat Med

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“…Personhood, then, 'persists where it no longer resides' (Laqueur, 2015: 31). This approach concentrates on the enmeshed nature of the social existence of people, rather than considering that the dualisms of mind and body or life versus death represent the end of those interactions (Robbins, 1996). It recognises the importance and relationality of embodiment whilst also acknowledging that once the body no longer exists, some form of personhood may endure via memory and memorialisation.…”

Section: D) the Dead As Personsmentioning

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Objects of Crime: Bodies, Embodiment and Forensic Pathology

Jones

2020

Social & Legal Studies

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When a death takes place in suspicious circumstances, the body transitions from being somebody to an object which is of legal as well as social value. A key investigatory process is that of the forensic autopsy, carried out by a Home Office Registered Forensic Pathologist (HORFP). This article draws upon empirical data from research involving HORFPs to examine their identity and the meaning they assign to the deceased body. I argue that HORFP’s understanding of the value of the deceased body constantly shifts due to the multifaceted nature of their role. I explain this by drawing upon a legal embodiment framework. The HORFPs have to balance a legal context which demands objective ‘facts’ and formal labels with emotionally difficult cases and the impact of their work on the bereaved. I challenge the dichotomy between dualism and embodiment, arguing that there is not an oppositional choice between ‘science’ and recognition of the symbolic value of the corpse, but rather that these views can coexist while serving different functions that are central to a HORFP’s role.

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The rights of the corpse

Baglow

2007

Mortality

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The notion of the rights of the corpse can provoke incredulous reaction, seeming as it does to denigrate the concept of rights and to assign an ontological status to the corpse that defies reason. On the contrary, however, it can be demonstrated that the social corpse is constructed as a repository of meaning and value: that it remains human and, in a social sense, animate. Rights, deriving from obligations, are shown to inhere in the corpse as a result of the duties that we continue to acknowledge to it.

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The Donation of Organs for Transplantation: the Donor Families

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The experiences of donor families in the hospice

The experiences of donor families in the hospice

Objects of Crime: Bodies, Embodiment and Forensic Pathology

The rights of the corpse

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