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Banking on the Body: The Market in Blood, Milk, and Sperm in Modern America (Har
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- Condition
- EAN
- 9780674281431
- ISBN
- 0674281438
- Binding
- TC
- Book Title
- Banking on the Body: The Market in Blood, Milk, an
- Subject Area
- Law, Science, Medical, History
- Publication Name
- Banking on the Body : the Market in Blood, Milk, and Sperm in Modern America
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Item Length
- 1 in
- Subject
- United States / 20th Century, History, Property, Life Sciences / Biology
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.1 in
- Item Weight
- 24.4 Oz
- Item Width
- 0.6 in
- Number of Pages
- 352 Pages
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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.
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Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674281438
ISBN-13
9780674281431
eBay Product ID (ePID)
175794898
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Banking on the Body : the Market in Blood, Milk, and Sperm in Modern America
Publication Year
2014
Subject
United States / 20th Century, History, Property, Life Sciences / Biology
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Law, Science, Medical, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Weight
24.4 Oz
Item Length
1 in
Item Width
0.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2013-040584
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
An important study of the way American society has managed and conceptualized the 'banking' and distribution of human body products. Swanson explores the parallel but illuminatingly asymmetrical histories of blood, milk, and reproductive cells to undermine the facile if familiar distinction between gift and commodity that has so polarized policy and ethical discussion in this area. A must read for anyone concerned with the ways in which we make policy and shape practice in contemporary medicine., Is blood a gift or a commodity? Is artificial insemination a form of adultery? These are some of the questions Swanson explores in the history of therapeutic treatments involving human products. This fascinating and well-analyzed work investigates the debates surrounding such substances as commodity or community resources, and looks at gender issues and legal reactions... This is a great book for anyone curious about the history, development, and commodification of human bodily fluids for therapeutic use., Since the 1940s, Swanson argues, body banks for breast milk and blood have been 'omnipresent,' while attitudes toward them reflect 'a medical profession unable to resolve its own conflicting commitments to health care access and to individual responsibility to pay for medical services.' Swanson leads a fascinating journey to the origins of this muddle: from young Bostonian doctor Fritz Talbot's search for a wet nurse to help save one of his fragile newborn patients to Dr. Bernard Fantus's pioneering 1930s blood bank at Cook County Hospital in Chicago to the 1950s use of the blood bank model for the management of sperm that organized a practice extant since the late 1800s., Blood, milk, and sperm are often seen as embodying the essence of personhood. But in our time they have become the parts of the body most easily stored and exchanged. Banking on the Body uncovers the remarkable story of how body products have been envisioned as civic resources controlled by medical professionals as well as personal property which might be bought and sold by individuals. Original and deeply researched, this book has real significance for how we balance ever-increasing demands for body parts while still preserving our own human values., Swanson presents a compelling examination of the process by which sperm, blood, and human milk came to be both 'e~gifts'e(tm) and commercial products. Deeply researched and clearly argued, this medical history should be read by anyone concerned with the legal and social consequences of body banking., An important study of the way American society has managed and conceptualized the 'e~banking'e(tm) and distribution of human body products. Swanson explores the parallel but illuminatingly asymmetrical histories of blood, milk, and reproductive cells to undermine the facile if familiar distinction between gift and commodity that has so polarized policy and ethical discussion in this area. A must read for anyone concerned with the ways in which we make policy and shape practice in contemporary medicine., Swanson presents a compelling examination of the process by which sperm, blood, and human milk came to be both 'gifts' and commercial products. Deeply researched and clearly argued, this medical history should be read by anyone concerned with the legal and social consequences of body banking.
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
362.17/84
Lc Classification Number
Rm171
Copyright Date
2014
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