Dealing with the Dead
History, Medicine, Ethics & Law

THURSDAY 15 NOVEMBER 2007
UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE

PROGRAM

Time	Item
9:15am	Registration
9:30am	Welcome and introduction Helen MacDonald
9:40am	KEYNOTE ADDRESS Gareth Jones Death on Display: Plastinates as a Cultural Phenomenon Questions and Discussion
10:45am	MORNING TEA
11:15am	SESSION ONE: OBTAINING HUMAN REMAINS Loane Skene Proprietary Interests in Human Bodies and Excised Tissue Stephen Cordner Human Tissue Banks: For Profit or Not? Helen MacDonald Dealing with the Dead: The Inspector of Anatomy Philomena Horsley Between Death and Disposal: Practices of the Hospital Autopsy Questions and Discussion
1:00pm	LUNCH
2:00pm	SESSION TWO: WORKING WITH HUMAN REMAINS Ross Jones Dissection: Its Protagonists and Subjects at the University of Melbourne during the Nineteenth Century Jenny Hayes The Body Donor Program at the University of Melbourne Megan Hicks Bringing out the Dead: Displays of Human Remains Questions and Discussion
3:20pm	CONCLUDING REMARKS Helen MacDonald

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