Tissue Economies - Blood, Organs, and Cell Lines in Late Capitalism

Informationen zum Autor Catherine Waldby and Robert Mitchell Klappentext A cultural studies account of how the "bio-value" of blood, stem cells, organs, and cell lines moves back and forth between 'gift' and 'commodity'. Zusammenfassung Surveys the economies of exchange in human blood! tissues! and organs. This book compares tissue economies in the United Kingdom and United States. It features a series of case studies based on particular forms of tissue exchange and also considers the impact of different models of biotechnology patents on tissue economies. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Catherine Waldby, Robert Mitchell, Robert Waldby Mitchell, Robert Mitchell, Catherine Waldby, Catherine Mitchell Waldby, Cathy Waldby, Cathy/ Mitchell Waldby
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 20.03.2006
• EAN: 9780822337577
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3757-7
• Seiten: 240
• Abmessung: 152 mm x 235 mm x 13 mm
• Serien: Science and Cultural Theory; Science and Cultural Theory
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Pädagogik > Sozialpädagogik, Soziale Arbeit; Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Medizin > Allgemeines; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Wirtschaft > Volkswirtschaft