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The author's best-known book, Speaking for the Dead: The Human Body in Biology and Medicine, published in 2009, has been used extensively by those looking for an overview of issues around the dead human body (including lawyers involved in cases about the retention of organs and body parts). Over the past 40 years many new ethical issues have arisen. Written from a personal perspective this book aims to present an overview of the issues in an accessible manner for anatomists, other health educators, biomedical scientists, biological anthropologists, and legal scholars. References are kept to a minimum. The relatively short chapters include coverage of unethical travesties of the Nazi era, and the revolution in public anatomy created by the Body Worlds public exhibitions of dissected human bodies. The growing appreciation of ethical developments by anatomists from Medieval times to the present is highlighted and the consequences for present-day ethical expectations are assessed.

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David Gareth Jones is Emeritus Professor of Anatomy in the University of Otago, New Zealand. He served as Head of Department for 20 years, followed by Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) for 5 years, and Director of the Bioethics Centre for 3 years. He trained in medicine at University College London, UK. He has published extensively in neuroscience and more recently in the ethical implications of using dead human bodies for the training of medical and allied health professional students.He has published more than 20 books in bioethics, of which the two editions of Speaking for the Dead (2009) are the most widely known. He is a co-author of the text Medical Ethics which went through four editions. He has written 60 chapters in books on bioethical topics, and over 100 papers in bioethics. In addition, he has written over 30 journal articles specifically on ethical issues in human anatomy.

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