Bodily Exchanges, Bioethics and Border Crossing: Perspectives on Giving, Selling and Sharing Bodies

ISBN-13: 9780367341473 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 212 str.

Erik Malmqvist; Kristin Zeiler

Opis

Medical advances enable us to make our bodies available to others in an increasing number of ways, for instance, via organ, tissue, egg and sperm donation and surrogate motherhood. This cutting-edge book develops new ways of understanding the ethical, social and cultural aspects of different such bodily exchanges.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Bodily Exchanges, Bioethics and Border Crossing  2. The Lived Body and Personal Identity: The Ontology of Exiled Body Parts  3. Putting the Gift Relationship to Test: The Peculiar Case of Research on Discarded Human Tissue  4. "I Wouldn’t Put Them on eBay!" Discourses on Money, Markets and Meanings amongst IVF Patients Volunteering for a UK "Egg Sharing for Research" Scheme  5. Sharing Organs for Transplantation: Altruism as Kagandahang Loob  6. Sharing Amidst Scarcity: The Commons as Innovative Transgression in Xeno- and Allo- Transplant Science  7. Sharing the Embodied Experience of Pregnancy: The Case of Surrogate Motherhood  8. Relational Ontology and Ethics in Online Organ Solicitation: The Problem of Sharing One’s Body when Being Touched Online  9. The Transplant Imaginary and Its Postcolonial Hauntings  10. Managing Hope and Spiritual Distress: The Centrality of the Doctor-Patient Relationship in Combatting Stem Cell Travel  11. International Clinical Research and the Problem of Benefiting from Injustice  12. The Ethics of Transactions in an Unjust World  13. Concluding Reflections: Bodily Exchanges as Sharing