Banking on the body the market in blood, milk, and sperm in modern America
Banking for love and for moneyBankable 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.
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Format: | UnknownFormat |
Sprache: | eng |
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Cambridge, Mass. u.a.
Harvard Univ. Press
2014
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Schlagworte: |
Geschichte
> Blutspendedienst
> Organtransplantation
> Gesundheitsökonomik
> USA
> Blood banks
> History
> Economic aspects
> Sperm banks
> Breast milk
> Collection and preservation
> Law and legislation
> Milk banks
> Blood Banks
> history
> legislation & jurisprudence
> Milk Banks
> Sperm Banks
> History, 19th Century
> History, 20th Century
> History, 21st Century
> Metaphor
> Körperflüssigkeit
> Medizinische Versorgung
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Zusammenfassung: | Banking for love and for moneyBankable 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. Main description: Ultimately, the bank metaphor straitjacketed legal codes and reinforced inequalities in medical care. By exploring its past, Banking on the Body charts the path to a more efficient and less exploitative distribution of the human body’s life-giving potential. |
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Beschreibung: | Includes index |
Beschreibung: | 333 S. Ill. |
ISBN: | 9780674281431 978-0-674-28143-1 |