Author: Theophilus Nenjerama
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Michael Banner: The Ethics of Everyday Life – Moral Theology, Social Anthropology, and the Imagination of the Human
The Alder Hey Hospital case, where heart, fetuses, and thyme gland specimens were revealed to have been harvested and stored at the hospital without the knowledge of the parents of the deceased children, informed Banner’s research. The harvesting of the specimen was coupled with the bioethicists’ nonattendance to the parents’ needs and understanding of what…