Banking on the body : the market in blood, milk, and sperm in modern America / Kara W. Swanson.
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TextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (333 pages)Content type: - text
- computer
- online resource
- 9780674369481
- 0674369483
- Blood banks -- United States -- History
- Blood banks -- Economic aspects -- United States
- Sperm banks -- United States -- History
- Sperm banks -- Economic aspects -- United States
- Breast milk -- Collection and preservation -- United States -- History
- Breast milk -- Economic aspects -- United States
- Metaphor
- Biological Specimen Banks -- history
- Biological Specimen Banks -- legislation & jurisprudence
- History, 19th Century
- History, 20th Century
- History, 21st Century
- Metaphor
- United States
- Banques de sang -- États-Unis -- Histoire
- Banques de sang -- Aspect économique -- États-Unis
- Banques de sperme -- États-Unis -- Histoire
- Banques de sperme -- Aspect économique -- États-Unis
- Lait de femme -- États-Unis -- Extraction et conservation -- Histoire
- Lait de femme -- Aspect économique -- États-Unis
- Médecine -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
- Médecine -- Histoire -- 20e siècle
- Médecine -- Histoire -- 21e siècle
- Métaphore
- metaphor
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare
- HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century
- Blood banks
- Blood banks -- Economic aspects
- Breast milk -- Collection and preservation
- Sperm banks
- United States
- Körperflüssigkeit
- Kommerzialisierung
- Sperma
- Muttermilch
- Geschichte
- Blut
- Biobank
- 362.17/84 23
- RM172 .S93 2014eb
- QU 11 AA1
- WF 9700
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-319) and index.
Online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed December 1, 2014).
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.
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.
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