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Clinical Labor : Tissue Donors and Research Subjects in the Global Bioeconomy
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cooper, Melinda.
- Series:
- Experimental Futures
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human reproductive technology--Economic aspects.
- Human reproductive technology.
- Human reproductive technology--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Medical care--Technological innovations.
- Medical care.
- Epidemiologic Study Characteristics as Topic.
- Evaluation Studies as Topic.
- Investigative Techniques.
- Therapeutics.
- Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms.
- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment.
- Epidemiologic Methods.
- Public Health.
- Quality of Health Care.
- Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation.
- Environment and Public Health.
- Delivery of Health Care.
- Clinical Trials as Topic.
- Reproductive Techniques.
- Medical Subjects:
- Epidemiologic Study Characteristics as Topic.
- Evaluation Studies as Topic.
- Investigative Techniques.
- Therapeutics.
- Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms.
- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment.
- Epidemiologic Methods.
- Public Health.
- Quality of Health Care.
- Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation.
- Environment and Public Health.
- Delivery of Health Care.
- Clinical Trials as Topic.
- Reproductive Techniques.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (290 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Forms of embodied labor, such as surrogacy and participation in clinical trials, are central to biomedical innovation, but they are rarely considered as labor. The authors take on that project, analyzing what they call clinical labor and asking what such an analysis might indicate about the organization of the bio-economy and the broader organization of labor and value today.
- Contents:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Part I. What Is Clinical Labor?; One. A Clinical Labor Theory of Value; Two. The Historical Lineages of Clinical Labor - Industrial Order, Human Capital, and the Outsourcing of Risk; Part II. From Reproductive Work to Regenerative Labor; Three. Fertility Outsourcing - Contract, Risk, and Assisted Reproductive Technology; Four. Reproductive Arbitrage - Trading Fertility across Borders; Five. Regenerative Labor - Women and the Stem Cell Industries; Part III. The Work of Experiment: Clinical Trials and the Production of Risk
- Six. The American Experiment - From Prison-Academic-Industrial Complex to the Outsourced ClinicSeven. Speculative Economies, Contingent Bodies - Transnational Trials in China and India; Eight. The Labor of Distributed Experiment - User-Generated Drug Innovation; Conclusion; Notes; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780822377009
- 0822377004
- OCLC:
- 867661156
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