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Radio 4,23 Jun 2009,30 mins

The Law and the Dead

The Law Show

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With a report due on the findings of an inquiry into the nuclear industry's use of organs from dead workers for medical research, Clive Coleman examines the law governing what happens to your body when you are dead and what it means for people who want to give away - or even sell - bits of themselves. Who owns your body - you or the state?

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