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What inspired the journalist/author to research this subject? The author was inspired to research this subject due to the death of college friend who committed suicide. The author thought by researching and writing about deaths he would find closure. She knew the dead could help when it came to research and to teach those in medical school. But she wanted to learn more about where these corpses came from and who they were.
How did Michael Brown start in the illegal body broker business and what ultimately happened to him? Michael Brown was the owner of a crematorium in California. Brown started in the illegal body broker business to earn more money for the new crematorium he wanted to build across the street from his current location. IMET …show more content…

How did Allen Tyler become a successful broker? The job of a body broker is to facilitate the sell. The book mentioned most dieners become brokers. Chapter 3 explained Perna (body broker) contracted to provide a kind of deluxe corpse service, transport the parts, set them up, keep them fresh, and then haul them away once done. The suppliers of these bodies are morgues, medical schools, tissue banks, independent companies, funeral homes and crematoriums. Allen Tyler was a part-time consultant with IMET. His other job was a diener (a worker who handles, moves and cleans the corpses) with the University of Texas Medical branch; he oversaw the body program. This gave him easy access to the bodies; also his knowledge on how to handle the bodies gave him an edge above anyone else. Tyler knew how to dismember a body in a precise …show more content…

Discuss what happened in the case of donor 58600. In the case of 58600 he was to be donated to the Bart Wheatley of Intermountain Donor services for a tissue transplant. But because his body was decaying his tissue was sold to CryoLife for $10,500. His knee ended up in Minnesota to be used in a procedure where the doctor would use tissue from a dead body to repair the knee of Brian Lykins. The doctor advised Brian that the tissue being used was disease free but was the tissue of donor 58600 who after death Clostridium sordelli bacteria took over his body. Brian Lykins died soon after the surgery. Brian was not the only person who received tissue from donor 58600; others also got sick or died. Some concerns related are that there is no way to regulate human remains without someone trying to make a profit. It started off as a way to advance science and help society but the greed of money took over. So because there is no regulations or policies people will do what they must to make a profit. Like in the example above knowing the donor had a disease but selling the tissue anyway. There are now regulations for tissue donations but not for the human remains business as a whole. Once regulations are put in place they need to be enforced and organizations need to be audited to make sure they are within compliance. Another concern is conflict of interest; if you are a funeral

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Patients have no rights to samples taken from them as they become biological waste. Yet it is not necessary for doctors to obtain consent to store the same tissues that are supposed to be biological waste and use the samples for research. The lines in bioethics are blurred and there should be stricter guidelines on how research should be conducted and exactly who should benefit from. I believe the tissue donor should receive some sort of compensation because it not for said cells, the research would not exist. As with HeLa cells, without Henrietta Lacks, there would be no HeLa cells nor any

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   Should patient consent be required to store and distribute their tissue for research? Should doctors disclose their financial interests? Would this make any difference in achieving fairness? Or is this not a matter of fairness or an ethical issue to begin with?

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Billy 's great great great uncle Bob was a mobster. Bob killed many people and made lots of money. He was shot and killed. That 's how Billy became rich and also he sold guns.

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In 1856 he was elected to New York City’s board of supervisors through most of the 1860s. With this position Tweed begin corrupting the government. In 1860, Tweed opened a law office despite not being a lawyer. All he did was have a friend make him one and then he opened a law firm taking people’s money without legally being a lawyer.

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Henrietta Lacks was an African-American woman whose cells from her cancerous tumor led to many medical advances in the world. The cells led to the HeLa line, which have a crucial role in drug development and toxicity testing (Hunt). Prior to the HeLa line, it was proven impossible to grow human cells in a laboratory for any length of time. The conflict in this amazing discovery is that her cells were taken from her body for medical purposes without her permission. People argue that people have to be given legal ownership of their tissues and given money for them or medical advances made using the tissues.

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This reflect an ethical egoism since they are only acting from a self interest perspective. With the organ donor case, to start organ traffic is illegal, it was also clear that the seller of the organs

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In the novel, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Henrietta was an unwilling donor in tissue research. Researchers took her tissue without her consent, which was wrong of them to do. Today, researchers should have someone sign a consent form if they want to use that person's tissue for any form of research. This way the donor of the tissue knows exactly what will happen, and will not be as worried. It also establishes some form of trust between the researcher and the donor.

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He wanted to earn the money being employed by the Devil, so he became a broker that would charge insane amounts of money. Tom became a rich and powerful man over the years, but began to develop a different outlook on life as he became older. He suddenly became very Christian and was regretting ever making the deal with the Devil. Knowing that his time drew near, he started to read and carry a bible in his pocket anywhere he went, and left a very large bible on the desk where he makes the deals with the people he is taking money from. One day however, the Devil caught him off guard without his bible while Tom was closing a deal.

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The Dealers worked hard. They performed with so many people on stage: Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, The Supremes, The Eagles; I could go on and on. They even recorded an album for CBS Records in 1985. The album should have been a smash! Michael Jackson was on the same label, so naturally The Dealers and other CBS artists were neglected and not given the attention they deserved.

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He and his cronies became known as the “Tweed Ring.” In 1860, Tweed opened a law office, even though he had not received any law training. He began to receive large sums of money from corporation in exchange for his “legal services”, which were in fact a cover for extortions. He was beginning to receive large sums of money this way. William Tweed used the large amount of money he had gained to buy real estate in the Manhattan area.

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If people would be allowed to sell their organs we would be able to avoid this practice and keep the removal of said organs to professionals in a safe environment. Since most times professionals aren 't the ones removing the organs on the black market there has been instances where the wrong organ is removed or a good organ is

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Organ donation is currently the only successful way of saving the lives of patients with organ failure and other diseases that require a new organ altogether. According to the U.S Department of Health and Human Services there is currently 122,566 patients both actively and passively on the transplant list. This number will continue to increase, in fact, every ten minutes another person is added to the list. Unfortunately, twenty-two of these people die while waiting for an organ on a daily basis. Each day, about eighty Americans receive a lifesaving organ transplant.

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