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Regenerating bodies : tissue and cell therapies in the twenty-first century /
This exciting book examines how human tissues and cells are being exchanged, commodified and commercialized by new health technologies. Through a discussion of emergent global 'tissue economies' the author explores the social dynamics of innovation in the fields of tissue engineering and s...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Hoboken :
Taylor and Francis,
2012.
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| Colección: | Genetics and society (Series)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Regenerating Bodies; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1. Commodifying tissues and cells: The new tissue economies; Introduction; Emerging bioeconomies; Sourcing tissues for health technologies; Engineering tissues; Stem cells; The skin business; Engineering skin; Conclusion; 2. Regenerative medicine: a paradigm shift?; Introduction; Continuities with the past: culturing cells; Governing science with new institutions: the UK Stem Cell Bank; Boundary making; Distributed networks, commercialization and therapeutic use of stem cells.
- Innovation, transplantation medicine and stem cell scienceInnovation in neuroscience using fetal tissue; Conclusion; 3. Regulation and governance of tissue- and cell-based therapies in Europe: Ethical controversy and the politics of risk; Introduction; Ethical controversy and the principle of subsidiarity; Banking communities; Industry and the regulatory state: regulating the market in human-tissue products; Conclusion; 4. A 'strict but permissive approach': A case study of UK regulation of human-tissue and cell therapies; Introduction; Progressive science and UK science policy.
- The HFEA model, 1990-2008A national scandal: from professional self-regulation to a new regulatory order; Using human tissues in research; Tissue banking: therapeutic use of human tissue and cells; Regulating hybridity and boundary objects; Conclusion; 5. 'Football fields of skin': a masculinist dream?; Introduction; Gender, science and technology; Defining clinical (social) need; Cartilage repair and regeneration; Women's labour: gendering the bioeconomy; The fetal-tissue economy; Conclusion; 6. Remaking the self; Introduction; Technologies of the body; Multiplications; Self and other.
- Being human, donating tissue for research and therapiesPlastic bodies; Culturing cells and regulating the self; Beyond limits: materiality and subjectivity; Towards a feminist bioethics of the body; Conclusion; 7. Life, death and immortality; Introduction; Women and embryos: informed consent; Abortion, fetal death, corpses and organ donation: the right to choose; From transplantation medicine to regenerative medicine: innovation stories; Feminist (embodied) futures?; Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index.