Tissue Economies: Blood, Organs, and Cell Lines in Late Capitalism (Science and Cultural Theory)

"Catherine Waldby and Robert Mitchell demonstrate just how shaky are some of the structures underpinning the global politics of human tissue, such as the distinction between gift and commodity, when in late capitalism even tissue originally given altruistically is used as an open source of free tissue for commercial use on a worldwide scale. Yet they refuse the temptation of easy cynicism, asking what better models we can use instead to protect ourselves in the global tissue economy. This is an imaginative, up-to-date, and politically astute book."-Donna Dickenson, author ofRisk and Luck in Medical EthicsRobert Mitchell is the author of 'Tissue Economies: Blood, Organs, and Cell Lines in Late Capitalism (Science and Cultural Theory)', published 2006 under ISBN 9780822337577 and ISBN 0822337576.