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Willed-body donation

The voluntary, pre-mortem consent by an individual to donate their remains to a specific research programme after death. Distinguished from anatomical donation to medical schools by the nature of use (outdoor decomposition research) and by the explicit consent requirements governing that use.

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Accumulated degree days (ADD)AFTERAnthropology Research Facility (ARF)Bass Donated Skeletal CollectionCadaver decomposition island (CDI)Cultural affiliation (NAGPRA)Culturally unidentifiable remainsDe Montfort precedent (2018)FACTSHamann-Todd CollectionHuman Tissue Act 2004 (HTA)NAGPRA

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