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Tissue Economies - Blood, Organs, and Cell Lines in Late Capitalism (Paperback)
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Tissue Economies - Blood, Organs, and Cell Lines in Late Capitalism (Paperback)
Series: Science and Cultural Theory
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As new medical technologies are developed, more and more human
tissues—such as skin, bones, heart valves, embryos, and stem cell
lines—are stored and distributed for therapeutic and research
purposes. The accelerating circulation of human tissue fragments
raises profound social and ethical concerns related to who donates
or sells bodily tissue, who receives it, and who profits—or does
not—from the transaction. Catherine Waldby and Robert Mitchell
survey the rapidly expanding economies of exchange in human tissue,
explaining the complex questions raised and suggesting likely
developments. Comparing contemporary tissue economies in the United
Kingdom and United States, they explore and complicate the
distinction that has dominated practice and policy for several
decades: the distinction between tissue as a gift to be exchanged
in a transaction separate from the commercial market and tissue as
a commodity to be traded for profit.Waldby and Mitchell pull
together a prodigious amount of research—involving policy reports
and scientific papers, operating manuals, legal decisions,
interviews, journalism, and Congressional testimony—to offer a
series of case studies based on particular forms of tissue
exchange. They examine the effect of threats of
contamination—from HIV and other pathogens—on blood banks’
understandings of the gift/commodity relationship; the growth of
autologous economies, in which individuals bank their tissues for
their own use; the creation of the United Kingdom’s Stem Cell
bank, which facilitates the donation of embryos for stem cell
development; and the legal and financial repercussions of
designating some tissues “hospital waste.” They also consider
the impact of different models of biotechnology patents on tissue
economies and the relationship between experimental therapies to
regenerate damaged or degenerated tissues and calls for a legal,
for-profit market in organs. Ultimately, Waldby and Mitchell
conclude that scientific technologies, the globalization of tissue
exchange, and recent anthropological, sociological, and legal
thinking have blurred any strict line separating donations from the
incursion of market values into tissue economies.
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Imprint: |
Duke University Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
Science and Cultural Theory |
Release date: |
March 2006 |
Firstpublished: |
March 2006 |
Authors: |
Robert Mitchell
• Catherine Waldby
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Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 14mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback
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Pages: |
240 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8223-3770-6 |
Categories: |
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LSN: |
0-8223-3770-3 |
Barcode: |
9780822337706 |
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