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Medical therapy, research and technology enable us to make our
bodies, or parts of them, available to others in an increasing
number of ways. This is the case in organ, tissue, egg and sperm
donation as well as in surrogate motherhood and clinical research.
Bringing together leading scholars working on the ethical, social
and cultural aspects of such bodily exchanges, this cutting-edge
book develops new ways of understanding them. Bodily Exchanges,
Bioethics and Border Crossing both probes the established giving
and selling frameworks for conceptualising bodily exchanges in
medicine, and seeks to develop and examine another, less familiar
framework: that of sharing. A framework of sharing can capture
practices that involve giving up and giving away part of one's
body, such as organ and tissue donation, and practices that do not,
such as surrogacy and research participation. Sharing also
recognizes the multiple relationalities that these exchanges can
involve and invites inquiry into the context in which they occur.
In addition, the book explores the multiple forms of border
crossing that bodily exchanges in medicine involve, from the
physical boundaries of the body to relational borders - as can
happen in surrogacy - to national borders and the range of ethical
issues that these various border-crossings can give rise to.
Engaging with anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and feminist and
postcolonical perspectives, this is an original and timely
contribution to contemporary bioethics in a time of increasing
globalization. It will be of use to students and researchers from a
range of humanities and social science backgrounds as well as
medical and other healthcare professionals with an interest in
bioethics.
Medical therapy, research and technology enable us to make our
bodies, or parts of them, available to others in an increasing
number of ways. This is the case in organ, tissue, egg and sperm
donation as well as in surrogate motherhood and clinical research.
Bringing together leading scholars working on the ethical, social
and cultural aspects of such bodily exchanges, this cutting-edge
book develops new ways of understanding them. Bodily Exchanges,
Bioethics and Border Crossing both probes the established giving
and selling frameworks for conceptualising bodily exchanges in
medicine, and seeks to develop and examine another, less familiar
framework: that of sharing. A framework of sharing can capture
practices that involve giving up and giving away part of one's
body, such as organ and tissue donation, and practices that do not,
such as surrogacy and research participation. Sharing also
recognizes the multiple relationalities that these exchanges can
involve and invites inquiry into the context in which they occur.
In addition, the book explores the multiple forms of border
crossing that bodily exchanges in medicine involve, from the
physical boundaries of the body to relational borders - as can
happen in surrogacy - to national borders and the range of ethical
issues that these various border-crossings can give rise to.
Engaging with anthropology, sociology, philosophy, and feminist and
postcolonical perspectives, this is an original and timely
contribution to contemporary bioethics in a time of increasing
globalization. It will be of use to students and researchers from a
range of humanities and social science backgrounds as well as
medical and other healthcare professionals with an interest in
bioethics.
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