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Selling The Dead

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Are corpses just like any other commodity that can be sold with impunity? Donating one's body to science after death allows medical research and the training of surgeons to progress. But the thriving market for human body parts has brought about deviations and malfunctions.In Paris, Europe's largest body donation centre has been the subject of a huge scandal. Bodies were mistreated, stored in unsanitary conditions and sold as spare parts to private companies. A judicial inquiry is underway to determine the liability chain. But what ethics govern the handling of dead bodies donated to science elsewhere? An investigation into corpses worth their weight in gold.
Year
2021
Production
RTS
Journalist
Raphaëlle Aellig Regnier
Resolution
HD
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