Regenerating Bodies: Tissue and Cell Therapies in the Twenty-First Century

ISBN-13: 9780415688819 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 240 str.

Julie Kent

Opis

This title examines how human tissues and cells are being exchanged, commodified and commercialised by new health technologies. Through a discussion of emergent global 'tissue economies', the author explores the social dynamics of innovation in the fields of tissue engineering and stem cell science.

Spis treści

1. Commodifying Tissues and Cells: New Tissue Economies  2. Regenerative Medicine: A Paradigm Shift?  3. Regulation and Governance of Tissue and Cell Based Therapies In Europe: Ethical Controversy and the Politics of Risk  4. A ‘Strict But Permissive Approach’ – A Case Study of Regulation and Governance In the UK  5. ‘Football Fields Of Skin’: A Masculinist Dream?  6. Remaking the Self  7. Life, Death and Immortality.

O autorze

Julie Kent is Professor of Sociology of Health Technology at the University of the West of England in Bristol. Her research and publications examine the connections between ethics and regulation, the gendering of bodies, human tissue use in the biosciences and the emergence of ‘regenerative medicine’.