Research Catalog

Title

Tissue economies : blood, organs, and cell lines in late capitalism / Catherine Waldby and Robert Mitchell.

Author

Waldby, Cathy.

Publication

Durham [N.C.] : Duke University Press, 2006.

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Additional Authors

Mitchell, Robert, 1969-

Description

viii, 231 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Science and cultural theory

Uniform Title

Science and cultural theory.

Subjects

• Tissue and Organ Procurement > organization & administration
• Preservation of organs, tissues, etc > Moral and ethical aspects
• Preservation of organs, tissues, etc > Economic aspects
• Tissue Donors > psychology
• Tissue and Organ Procurement > economics
• Cross-Cultural Comparison
• Tissue banks > Economic aspects
• United Kingdom
• Capitalism
• Tissue banks > Moral and ethical aspects
• Altruism
• Preservation of organs, tissues, etc > Political aspects
• United States
• Tissue banks > Political aspects
• Social Responsibility

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [189]-225) and index.

Contents

Introduction : gifts, commodities, and human tissues -- Pt. I. Tissue banks : managing the tissue economy -- 1. Blood banks, risk, and autologous donation : the gift of blood to oneself -- 2. Disentangling the embryonic gift : the UK stem cell bank -- Pt. II. Waste and tissue economies -- 3. The laws of Mo(o)re : waste, biovalue, and information ecologies -- 4. Umbilical cord blood : waste, gift, venture capital -- Pt. III. Biogifts of capital -- 5. Commodity-communities and corporate commons -- 6. Real-time demand : information, regeneration, and organ markets -- Conclusion : the future of tissue economies.

ISBN

• 0822337576 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 0822337703 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2005025993

OCLC

• ocm61513017
• SCSB-5247835

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries