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Tissue economies : blood, organs, and cell lines in late capitalism / Catherine Waldby and Robert Mitchell.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Waldby, Cathy.
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Science and cultural theory.
- Science and cultural theory
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tissue banks--Economic aspects.
- Tissue banks.
- Tissue banks--Political aspects.
- Tissue banks--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Preservation of organs, tissues, etc--Economic aspects.
- Preservation of organs, tissues, etc.
- Preservation of organs, tissues, etc--Political aspects.
- Preservation of organs, tissues, etc--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (241 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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'.
- Contents:
- Blood banks, risk, and autologous donation: the gift of blood to oneself
- Disentangling the embryonic gift: the UK stem cell bank
- The laws of mo(o)re: waste, biovalue, and information ecologies
- Umbilical cord blood: waste, gift, venture capital
- Commodity-communities and corporate commons
- Real-time demand: information, regeneration, and organ markets
- Conclusion: the future of tissue economies.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-225) and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Nov 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780822388043
- 0822388049
- OCLC:
- 226068357
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