Clinical labor : tissue donors and research subjects in the global bioeconomy / Melinda Cooper & Catherine Waldby.

  • Cooper, Melinda
Date:
2014
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Publication/Creation

Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2014.

Physical description

ix, 279 pages ; 23 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-271) and index.

Contents

A clinical labor theory of value -- The historical lineages of clinical labor : industrial order, human capital, and the outsourcing of risk -- Fertility outsourcing : contract, risk, and assisted reproductive technology -- Reproductive arbitrage : trading fertility across borders -- Regenerative labor : women and the stem cell industries -- The American experiment : from prison-academic-industrial complex to the outsourced clinic -- Speculative economies, contingent bodies : transnational trials in China and India -- The labor of distributed experiment : user-generated drug innovation.

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    Medical Collection
    WQ208 2014C77c
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  • 9780822356080
  • 0822356082
  • 9780822356226
  • 0822356228