Banking on the body : the market in blood, milk, and sperm in modern America / Kara W. Swanson.

  • Swanson, Kara W.
Date:
2014
  • Books

About this work

Publication/Creation

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014.

Physical description

333 pages ; 24 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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  • LocationStatus
    History of Medicine
    IOT.6
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ISBN

  • 9780674281431
  • 0674281438