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The discovery that children’s body parts had been kept for research without their grieving parents’ consent caused a scandal 10 years ago. Pathology became a vilified profession. Even now, post mortem rates are at an all time low, so Sue Armstrong set out to investigate the fallout from the Alder Hey crisis. Can pathologists continue their work in the new climate of suspicion and regulation? And if not, what is the outlook for developing new treatments and investigating deaths caused by negligence or murder?