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New cannibal markets : globalization and commodification of the human body / edited by Jean-Daniel Rainhorn, Samira El Boudamoussi.

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New cannibal markets : globalization and commodification of the human body / edited by Jean-Daniel Rainhorn, Samira El Boudamoussi.

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Paris : Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme ; Hermance : Fondation Brocher, [2015]
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431 pages : charts; 23 cm.

Series Statement

Collection 54/Collège d'études mondiales, 2267-9987

Uniform Title

54 (Series)

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Conference papers and proceedings

Note

Contributions from a international symposium held in Geneva, Switzerland, February 6-7, 2014 and organized by the Fondation Maison des sciences de l'homme (Paris, France).

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Globalization and misuses of biotechnologies: back to cannibalism? / Jean-Daniel Rainhorn. -- Trading in the human body -- New markets, old questions? / Samira El Boudamoussi and Vincent Barras. -- Rest in pieces: a short genealogy of cannibal markets / Jean-Jacques Courtine. -- To ban or not to ban: the ethics of selling body parts / Samia A. Hurst. -- The value of life: religions and commodification / Samira El Boudamoussi. -- Wombs for rent -- How do we balance risk and desire? / René Frydman. -- States of confusion: regulation of surrogacy in the United States / Seema Mohapatra. -- Danish sperm and indian wombs: fertility tourism / Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim. -- For motherhood and for market: commercial surrogacy in India / Sarojini Nadimpally. -- Within me, but not mine: surrogacy in Israel / Etti Samama. -- Brain theft -- Is brain drain cannibalism? / Alex Mauron. -- An unfair trade? Mobility of Africa's health professionals / Delanyo Dovlo and Sheila Mburu. -- Double movement: health professionals and patients in Southeast Asia / Nicola Suyin Pocock. -- Selective immigration: nurse importation by developed countries / Barbara L. Brush. -- Organs for sale -- Is transplantation tourism a form of cannibal market? / Philippe Steiner. -- State of the trade: world transplant tourism / Jacob A. Akoh. -- Lessons in donation: the Sanish experience in Latin America / Rafael Matesanz and Beatriz Mahíllo. -- An alternative to trade: the Iran experience / Mitra Mahdavi-Mazdeh. -- The ends of the body: neocannibalism and military necropolitics / Nancy Scheper-Hughes. -- The human-product-banking industry -- Do human body parts have a social life? / Vinh-Kim Nguyen. -- In the name of quality and safety: commercialization of human cells and tissues / Jean-Paul Pirnay. -- Selling donations: ethics and transfusion medicine / Jean-Daniel Tissot, Olivier Garraud, Jean-Jacques Lefrère, and Jean-Claude Osselaer. -- Who are the owners? Commercialization and biobanking / Bernice S. Elger. -- The bigger picture -- What else? Development, gender, and human-rights / Philippe Goyens. -- From colonization to neocolonization: new forms of exploitation / Firouzeh Nahavandi. -- Commodified bodies: is it a gender issue? / Judit Sándor. -- Trafficking in persons for the removal of organs: a human-rights approach / Debra Budiani-Saberi and Seán Columb. -- Mapping national and international responses -- Questions for the future / Edward Kelley. -- Limiting commodification: international law and its challenges / Carmel Shalev. -- Medical products of human origin: towards global governance tools / Luc Noël and Dominique Martin. -- Human commodification: professions, governments, and the need for further exploration / Alexander M. Capron.

ISBN

9782735119981 (pbk.) :

OCLC

969783542

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Harvard Library