Alas, poor Yorick: digging up the dead to make medical diagnoses

Is it ethical to dig up famous dead people to make tissue diagnoses? Exhuming famous dead people to test their tissues is mired in legal, ethical, and moral problems

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Veröffentlicht in:	PLoS medicine 2005-03, Vol.2 (3), p.e60-e60
1. Verfasser:	Hayden, Deborah
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Bioethical Issues Brain Cause of Death Confidentiality Corpus delicti Diaries Ethics Ethics, Medical Exhumation - ethics Genetic testing History Humans Medical Ethics Medical History Mitochondrial DNA Murders & murder attempts Patient Rights Publishing
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Zusammenfassung:	Is it ethical to dig up famous dead people to make tissue diagnoses? Exhuming famous dead people to test their tissues is mired in legal, ethical, and moral problems
ISSN:	1549-1676 1549-1277 1549-1676
DOI:	10.1371/journal.pmed.0020060