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Bodily exchanges, bioethics and border crossing : perspectives on giving, selling and sharing bodies / edited by Erik Malmqvist and Kristin Zeiler.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge studies in the sociology of health and illness
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Procurement of organs, tissues, etc--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Procurement of organs, tissues, etc.
- Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.
- Reproductive technology--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Reproductive technology.
- Tissue and Organ Procurement--ethics.
- Transplantation--ethics.
- Reproductive Techniques, Assisted--ethics.
- Medical Subjects:
- Tissue and Organ Procurement--ethics.
- Transplantation--ethics.
- Reproductive Techniques, Assisted--ethics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 212 pages).
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2016.
- [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], [2016]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of contributors; 1. Introduction: bodily exchanges, bioethics and border crossing; Bodily exchanges in medicine; Two ethical frameworks; Beyond giving and selling; Bodily giving, selling and sharing in this volume; Acknowledgements; Notes; References; 2. The lived body and personal identity: The ontology of exiled body parts; Introduction; Phenomenology of medicine and health care; Medical technology and exiled body parts; The ontology of the lived body and its parts; Medical science, phenomenology and culture.
- Five criteria in doing sobject ontologyStrong-identity-bearing sobjects and ethics; Conclusion; References; 3. Putting the gift relationship to test: the peculiar case of research on discarded human tissue; Introduction; Discarded tissue and the gift relationship; Challenges to research ethics: a gift-giving perspective; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Notes; References; 4. "I wouldn't put them on eBay!": discourses on money, markets and meanings amongst IVF patients volunteering for a UK "egg sharing for research" scheme; Introduction.
- A brief overview of international legislation and regulationCharacterizing the debate on money and bodies; Interviewees' characterizations of money and markets; Commentary; Thanks; Note; References; 5. Sharing organs for transplantation: altruism as kagandahang loob; Introduction; Giving and the significance of roles; Debts of gratitude, debts of good will; Monetary debt; Organ donation as a debt of good will; Sharing of oneself: creating a debt of good will; Confirming a relationship between benefactor and beneficiary; Debt of good will and hiya (moral shame); Organ sharing as altruism.
- Implications for compensation and incentivesExtended families and the extension of altruism; The authenticity of kagandahang loob; Understanding kagandahang loob in a comparative context; Summary and conclusions; References; 6. Sharing amidst scarcity: the commons as innovative transgression in xeno- and allotransplant science; Introduction; Sharing and sociality in medical science; The sentimental structures of scarcity, experimental failure and biocapital; Organ transfer: sharing amid scarcity; Xeno research and the science of scarcity; Pigs and the animal commons.
- Conclusion: is there room for a human transplant commons?Acknowledgements; References; 7. Sharing the embodied experience of pregnancy: the case of surrogate motherhood; Introduction; Revisiting Young: pregnant embodiment as a privileged relation; Beyond the maternal-foetal relation in pregnant embodiment; Sharing another's embodied experience; Carrying a child for another; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Notes; References; 8 Relational ontology and ethics in online organ solicitation: the problem of sharing one's body when being touched online; Introduction: Gail, Juan and Leigh Anne's story.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. London Available via World Wide Web.
- Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 10, 2018).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Alumni and Friends Memorial Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Bodily exchanges, bioethics and border crossing. Perspectives on giving, selling and sharing bodies
- ISBN:
- 9781317510970
- 1317510976
- 9781317510963
- 1317510968
- 9781315717760
- 131571776X
- Publisher Number:
- 99990750518
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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