Clinical Labor : Tissue Donors and Research Subjects in the Global Bioeconomy /

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Forms of embodied labor, such as surrogacy and participation in clinical trials, are central to biomedical innovation, but they are rarely considered as labor. Melinda Cooper and Catherine Waldby take on that project, analyzing what they call "clinical labor," and asking what such an analy...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Cooper, Melinda (Autor), Waldby, Catherine (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, [2014]
Colección:Experimental futures : technological lives, scientific arts, anthropological voices
Temas:
Human reproductive technology > Economic aspects.
Human reproductive technology > Moral and ethical aspects.
Medical care > Technological innovations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part I. What Is Clinical Labor?
  • One. A Clinical Labor Theory of Value
  • Two. The Historical Lineages of Clinical Labor Industrial Order, Human Capital, and the Outsourcing of Risk
  • Part II. From Reproductive Work to Regenerative Labor
  • Three. Fertility Outsourcing Contract, Risk, and Assisted Reproductive Technology
  • Four. Reproductive Arbitrage Trading Fertility across Borders
  • Five. Regenerative Labor Women and the Stem Cell Industries
  • Part III. The Work of Experiment: Clinical Trials and the Production of Risk
  • Six. The American Experiment 123 From Prison-Academic- Industrial Complex to the Outsourced Clinic
  • Seven. Speculative Economies, Contingent Bodies Transnational Trials in China and India
  • Eight. The Labor of Distributed Experiment User-Generated Drug Innovation
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index

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