Clinical Labor: Tissue Donors and Research Subjects in the Global Bioeconomy - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Melinda CooperSeries:Experimental FuturesPublish date:2014-02-14Pages:296
Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9780822356226ISBN-10:822356228UPC:9780822356226Book Category:Health & Fitness, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Fertility & Infertility, Sociology, Gender StudiesSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCFRQRYD86
Clinical Labor: Tissue Donors and Research Subjects in the Global Bioeconomy
Forms of embodied labor, such as surrogacy and participation in clinical trials, are central to biomedical innovation, but they are rarely considered as labor. Melinda Cooper and Catherine Waldby take on that project, analyzing what they call "clinical labor," and asking what such an analysis might indicate about the organization of the bioeconomy and the broader organization of labor and value...
Series: Experimental Futures
Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9780822356226ISBN-10:822356228UPC:9780822356226Book Category:Health & Fitness, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Fertility & Infertility, Sociology, Gender StudiesSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.9017Product ID:SCFRQRYD86
Melinda Cooper is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sydney. She is the author of Life as Surplus: Biotechnology and Capitalism in the Neoliberal Era.
Catherine Waldby is a Professorial Future Fellow in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sydney. She is coauthor, with Herbert Gottweis and Brian Salter, of...
Publisher: Duke University Press
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