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Alder Hey Hospital Scandal

Discussion on the ethnics of keeping the organs of the deceased for medical research

Between 1988 and 1995 Alder Hey children's hospital stored organs from dead children without parental consent or scientific justification.

Discussion on the ethnics of keeping the organs of the deceased, medical research and gaining consent.

With Janet Radcliffe Richards at University College London,
Anders Milton chair of World Medical Association and Richard Nicholson Bulletin of Medical Ethics

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This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project