Was Mr Isaacs brain the only organ retained?
In view of the family’s concerns that other organs might have been retained, Dr Farrand and Mr Walkden were both asked about any other practice of organ or tissue retention. Neither has any recollection of other organs being retained for research, Chapter 4. Other brain retentions at Prestwich mortuary Chapters 10, 12 and 21 describe the retention of brains for the joint programme in the Departments of Physiology and Psychiatry at Manchester University. Chapter 26 sets out the arrangement through which a small number of brains were retained and transferred to the brain bank at Addenbrooke’s Hospital, Cambridge, before the joint programme began at Manchester University in 1985. Chapter 8 outlines the separate system for retaining brains for research in the Cerebral Function Unit of the Department of Neurology at Manchester University. Organs retained for diagnostic reasons In principle, there could have been situations when retention of a whole organ was needed for further tests to esta
