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This fifth chapter is about explicit disputes concerning the power and control over the dead body, body ethics and the boundaries and limits of professional practice, involving the official figure of the coroner. The chapter is thus split into two halves. In the first half we will encounter a brief history of the Coronial Office in England, before then engaging with a series of stories about explicit body disputes involving specific coroners. We will be focussing on the symbolic story of a dead girl called Carol Morris because the circumstances of her harvested human material proved to be very controversial. Her case exemplifies why tracking the material journeys of post-mortem bodies and their body parts matters in hidden histories of the dead. Thus, in the second half of the chapter, we explore why one human story is a historical prism for lots of others, and how micro-history can inform macro-trends of considerable longevity. In fact, as we shall see, the Carol Morris case made a significant contribution to establishing the legal precedent of anonymity for all donors in national and international law.

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