CSPAN3 Ethics Of 20th Century Organ Transplants May 28, 2017
Medical history professor at the university of wisconsin. You focus on bioethics. Organ transplants. How did attitudes about death change in the United States after world war ii . One of the ways in which death changed after world war ii is that there was a growing interest in the increasing costs associated with the funeral industry. Great concern about Funeral Directors who unscrupulously took advantage of people during their time of need. And so, in response to this exploitation, there was a trend toward simple burial and the formation of socalled memorial societies that offered workingclas...