Robert Mitchell

Tissue Economies

Blood, Organs, and Cell Lines in Late Capitalism

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A survey of the rapidly expanding economies of exchange in human blood, tissues, and organs, explaining the complex issues at stake and suggesting likely developments

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 167mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 349g
• ISBN-13: 9780822337706
• ISBN-10: 0822337703
• Artikelnr.: 21275127

Autorenporträt

Catherine Waldby teaches medical sociology at the University of New South Wales. She is the author of The Visible Human Project: Informatic Bodies and Posthuman Medicine and AIDS and the Body Politic: Biomedicine and Sexual Difference. Robert Mitchell is Assistant Professor of English at Duke University. He is a coeditor of Data Made Flesh: Embodying Information and Semiotic Flesh: Information and the Human Body.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Gifts, Commodities, and Human Tissues 1
Part I. Tissue Banks: Managing the Tissue Economy 31
1. Blood Banks, Risk, and Autologous Donation: The Gift of Blood to Oneself
35
2. Disentangling the Embryonic Gift: The UK Stem Cell Bank 59
Part II. Waste and Tissue Economies 83
3. The Laws of Mo(o)re: Waste, Biovalue, and Information Ecologies 88
4. Umbilical Cord Blood: Waste, Gift, Venture Capital 110
Part III. Biogifts of Capital 131
5. Commodity-Communities and Corporate Commons 135
6. Real-Time Demand: Information, Regeneration, and Organ Markets 160
Conclusion: The Future of Tissue Economies 181
Notes 189
Bibliography 207
Index 227