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World Service,05 Feb 2001,24 mins

Alder Hey Hospital Scandal

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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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