Exchanging Human Bodily Material: Rethinking Bodies and Markets

Klaus Hoeyer

ISBN 10: 9400752636 / ISBN 13: 9789400752634

Editore: Springer Netherlands, Springer Netherlands Jan 2013, 2013

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Neuware -This book addresses the debate usually tagged as being about ¿markets in human body parts¿ which is antagonistically divided into pro-market and anti-market positions. The author provides a set of propositions about how to approachthis and shows a way out of the concrete impasse of it. Assumptions about markets and bodies that characterize this debate are analyzed and describedwhile the author argues that these assumptions are in fact constitutive for exchanges of human bodily material ¿ but in unacknowledged ways.It is concludedthat what we need is a different analytical approach to better understand the mechanisms at play when organizations exchange organs, tissues and cells for use in transplantation and fertility medicine. ¿Springer Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, 69121 Heidelberg 204 pp. Englisch.

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• Titolo: Exchanging Human Bodily Material: Rethinking Bodies and Markets
• Editore: Springer Netherlands, Springer Netherlands Jan 2013
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 9400752636
• ISBN 13: 9789400752634
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu

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This book addresses the debate usually tagged as being about markets in human body parts which is antagonistically divided into pro-market and anti-market positions. The author provides a set of propositions about how to approach this and shows a way out of the concrete impasse of it. Assumptions about markets and bodies that characterize this debate are analyzed and described while the author argues that these assumptions are in fact constitutive for exchanges of human bodily material but in unacknowledged ways. It is concluded that what we need is a different analytical approach to better understand the mechanisms at play when organizations exchange organs, tissues and cells for use in transplantation and fertility medicine. ?

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This book addresses the debate usually tagged as being about markets in human body parts which is antagonistically divided into pro-market and anti-market positions. The author provides a set of propositions about how to approach this and shows a way out of the concrete impasse of it.

Assumptions about markets and bodies that characterize this debate are analyzed and described while the author argues that these assumptions are in fact constitutive for exchanges of human bodily material but in unacknowledged ways. It is concluded that what we need is a different analytical approach to better understand the mechanisms at play when organizations exchange organs, tissues and cells for use in transplantation and fertility medicine.

Assumptions about markets and bodies that characterize this debate are analyzed and described while the author argues that these assumptions are in fact constitutive for exchanges of human bodily material but in unacknowledged ways. It is concluded that what we need is a different analytical approach to better understand the mechanisms at play when organizations exchange organs, tissues and cells for use in transplantation and fertility medicine.