Banking on the Body - The Market in Blood, Milk, and Sperm in Modern America

About the author

Kara W. Swanson is Associate Professor of Law at Northeastern University School of Law.

Summary

Each year Americans supply blood, sperm, and breast milk to “banks” that store these products for use by strangers in medical procedures. Who gives, who receives, who profits? Kara Swanson traces body banks from the first experiments that discovered therapeutic uses for body products to current websites that facilitate a thriving global exchange.

Product details

• Authors: Kara W. Swanson
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.05.2014
• EAN: 9780674281431
• ISBN: 978-0-674-28143-1
• No. of pages: 352
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Civil law, civil procedural law; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, MEDICAL / Health Policy, MEDICAL / History, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, LAW / Property, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, History of Medicine, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Public health and preventive medicine, Property law: general, property law, human body products