The Public Power Industry and the Public Interest. Edited by Edward E. Hunt. (New York: The Twentieth Century Fund. 1944. Pp. xiv, 261. $1.00.)

1945 ◽  
Vol 39 (1) ◽  
pp. 177-178
Author(s):  
Charles B. Hagan
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Power Industry ◽  
Public Power ◽  
The Public ◽  
Twentieth Century Fund

Guarding the Public Interest: England's Coroners and Organ Transplants, 1960–1975

2015 ◽  
Vol 54 (4) ◽  
pp. 926-946 ◽  
Author(s):  
Helen MacDonald
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Spare Part ◽  
Organ Transplants ◽  
Legal Requirement ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Law ◽  
Do So

AbstractFrom the mid-twentieth century, England's coroners were crucial to the supply of organs to transplant, as much of this material was gleaned from the bodies of people who had been involved in accidents. In such situations the law required that a coroner's consent first be obtained lest removing the organs destroy evidence about the cause of the person's death. Surgeons challenged the legal requirement that they seek consent before taking organs, arguing that doing so hampered their quick access to bodies. Some coroners willingly cooperated with surgeons while others refused to do so, coming into conflict with particular transplanters whom they considered untrustworthy. This article examines how the phenomenon of “spare part” surgery challenged long-held conceptions of the coroner's role.

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