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
Contributors
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.
Bibliographic information
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Languages
Subjects
- Blood banksUnited StatesHistory
- Blood banksEconomic aspectsUnited States.
- Sperm banksUnited StatesHistory
- Sperm banksEconomic aspectsUnited States.
- Breast milkCollection and preservationUnited StatesHistory
- Breast milkEconomic aspectsUnited States.
- Biological Specimen Bankshistory
- Biological Specimen Bankslegislation & jurisprudence
- Metaphor
- 19th-21st centuries
- United States
Where to find it
Location Status History of MedicineIOT.6Open shelves
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Identifiers
ISBN
- 9780674281431
- 0674281438