Banking On The Body: The Market In Blood, Milk, And Sperm In Modern America

Each year Americans supply blood, sperm, and breast milk to "banks" that store these products for use by strangers in medical procedures. Who gives, who receives, who profits? Kara Swanson traces body banks from the first experiments that discovered therapeutic uses for body products to current websites that facilitate a thriving global exchange. 9780674281431 0674281438 344 BOOK History NOT_MATURE http://books.google.com/books/content?id=QteDAwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&img=1&zoom=5&edge=curl&source=gbs_api en

• | Author: Kara W. Swanson
• | Publisher: Harvard University Press
• | Publication Date: May 01, 2014
• | Number of Pages: 352 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0674281438
• | ISBN-13: 9780674281431