Tissue Economies: Blood, Organs, and Cell Lines in Late Capitalism
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Abstract
Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Gifts, Commodities, and Human Tissues 1 Part I. Tissue Banks: Managing the Tissue Economy 31 1. Blood Banks, Risk, and Autologous Donation: The Gift of Blood to Oneself 35 2. Disentangling the Embryonic Gift: The UK Stem Cell Bank 59 Part II. Waste and Tissue Economies 83 3. The Laws of Mo(o)re: Waste, Biovalue, and Information Ecologies 88 4. Umbilical Cord Blood: Waste, Gift, Venture Capital 110 Part III. Biogifts of Capital 131 5. Commodity-Communities and Corporate Commons 135 6. Real-Time Demand: Information, Regeneration, and Organ Markets 160 Conclusion: The Future of Tissue Economies 181 Notes 189 Bibliography 207 Index 227