Banking on the Body : : The Market in Blood, Milk, and Sperm in Modern America / / Kara W. Swanson.
Scientific advances and economic forces have converged to create something unthinkable for much of human history: a robust market in human body products. Every year, countless Americans supply blood, sperm, and breast milk to "banks" that store these products for later use by strangers in...
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Swanson, Kara W., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Banking on the Body : The Market in Blood, Milk, and Sperm in Modern America / Kara W. Swanson. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2014] ©2014 1 online resource (343 p.) : 10 halftones text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION: Banking for Love and for Money -- 1 Bankable Bodies and the Professional Donor -- 2 Banks Th at Take Donations -- 3 Blood Battles in the Cold War -- 4 Market Backlash -- 5 Feminine Banks and the Milk of Human Kindness -- 6 Buying Dad from the Sperm Bank -- CONCLUSION: Beyond the Body Bank -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Scientific advances and economic forces have converged to create something unthinkable for much of human history: a robust market in human body products. Every year, countless Americans supply blood, sperm, and breast milk to "banks" that store these products for later use by strangers in routine medical procedures. These exchanges entail complicated questions. Which body products are donated and which sold? Who gives and who receives? And, in the end, who profits? In this eye-opening study, Kara Swanson traces the history of body banks from the nineteenth-century experiments that discovered therapeutic uses for body products to twenty-first-century websites that facilitate a thriving global exchange. More than a metaphor, the "bank" has shaped ongoing controversies over body products as either marketable commodities or gifts donated to help others. A physician, Dr. Bernard Fantus, proposed a "bank" in 1937 to make blood available to all patients. Yet the bank metaphor labeled blood as something to be commercially bought and sold, not communally shared. As blood banks became a fixture of medicine after World War II, American doctors made them a frontline in their war against socialized medicine. The profit-making connotations of the "bank" reinforced a market-based understanding of supply and distribution, with unexpected consequences for all body products, from human eggs to kidneys. Ultimately, the bank metaphor straitjacketed legal codes and reinforced inequalities in medical care. By exploring its past, Banking on the Body charts the path to a more efficient and less exploitative distribution of the human body's life-giving potential. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2021) Blood banks Economic aspects United States. Blood banks United States History. Breast milk Collection and preservation United States History. Breast milk Economic aspects United States. Sperm banks Economic aspects United States. Sperm banks United States History. MEDICAL / History. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Complete Package 2014 9783110369526 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Medicine 2014 9783110370379 ZDB-23-DPM Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 9783110665901 print 9780674281431 https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674369481 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674369481 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9780674369481.jpg |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- INTRODUCTION: Banking for Love and for Money -- 1 Bankable Bodies and the Professional Donor -- 2 Banks Th at Take Donations -- 3 Blood Battles in the Cold War -- 4 Market Backlash -- 5 Feminine Banks and the Milk of Human Kindness -- 6 Buying Dad from the Sperm Bank -- CONCLUSION: Beyond the Body Bank -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
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