A report of the NHS in Britain today that at least 21,000 brains were harvested from deceased patients between 1970-1999. The study was motivated by a campaign by a woman from Manchester who discovered that her husband’s brain was removed after he committed suicide in 1987. The study seems not to have provided any insight into the exact percentage of tens of thousands of brains that were harvested without consent, but it is clear that “there had been widespread failure to do so…” Researchers are fearful that the outrage concerning “stolen brains” will radically reduce the amount of brain tissue available in the U.K..
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