Inquiry Shows British Scientists Took Brains Without Families' Consent

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Foreign Desk | May 13, 2003, Tuesday
Inquiry Shows British Scientists Took Brains Without Families' Consent

By SARAH LYALL (NYT) 983 words
Late Edition - Final , Section A , Page 8 , Column 1

ABSTRACT - British government announces that as many as 22,000 brains were removed, most without relatives' permission, from people who died from 1970 to 1999; says rationale was research into sickness, into functions of brain and into depression and mental illness; hospital morticians were paid for each brain they provided to researchers eager to get hold of new brains for their studies; removing organs and tissues from bodies without relatives' consent was explicity outlawed in 1999, after earlier scandal; government's later investigation was prompted by long campaign of Orthodox Jewish woman incensed that treatment of her husband's body violated family's religious beliefs (M) Nothing about Cyril Isaacs's death was easy, from the way he carried it out -- hanging himself with the cord from an electric kettle -- to the distress his widow, Elaine, felt over the authorities' insistence on performing an autopsy.

But that was not the end of it. Thirteen years later, in 2000, Mrs. Isaacs's inadvertent discovery that her husband's brain had been removed and handed over to researchers touched off a grim and far-reaching investigation into the fate of the brains of the dead.



 

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