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

Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2014.

ix, 279 pages ; 23 cm.

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.

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