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Banking on the body : the market in blood, milk, and sperm in modern America / Kara W. Swanson.
- Title
- Banking on the body : the market in blood, milk, and sperm in modern America / Kara W. Swanson.
- Author
- Swanson, Kara W.,
- Publication
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | RM172 .S93 2014 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 333 pages; 24 cm
- 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.
- Subject
- Biological Specimen Banks
- Biological Specimen Banks > history
- Biological Specimen Banks > legislation & jurisprudence
- Blood banks > Economic aspects > United States
- Blood banks > United States > History
- Breast milk > Economic aspects > United States
- Breast milk > History. > United States
- History, 19th Century
- History, 20th Century
- History, 21st Century
- Metaphor
- Sperm banks > Economic aspects > United States
- Sperm banks > United States > History
- United States
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Banking for love and for money -- Bankable bodies and the professional donor -- Banks that take donations -- Blood battles in the Cold War -- Market backlash -- Feminine banks and the milk of human kindness -- Buying dad from the sperm bank -- Beyond the body bank.
- ISBN
- 9780674281431 (alk. paper)
- 0674281438 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2013040584
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library