Screen LibraryBanking on the body : the market in blood, milk, and sperm in modern America /
Each year Americans supply blood, sperm, and breast milk to "banks" that store these products for use by strangers in medical procedures. Who gives, who receives, who profits? Kara Swanson traces body banks from the first experiments that discovered therapeutic uses for body products to cu...
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Harvard University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : |
| Publication Dates: | 2014. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
Each year Americans supply blood, sperm, and breast milk to "banks" that store these products for use by strangers in medical procedures. Who gives, who receives, who profits? Kara Swanson traces body banks from the first experiments that discovered therapeutic uses for body products to current websites that facilitate a thriving global exchange. |
| Carrier Form: | 333 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-319) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780674281431 (alkaline paper) : 0674281438 (alkaline paper) |
| Index Number: | RM171 |
| CLC: |
R457-05 R318-097.12 |
| Call Number: | R318-097.12/S972 |
| Contents: | 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. |