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Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-03-20 - Publisher: Duke University Press
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Language: en
Pages: 241
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-03-20 - Publisher: Duke University Press
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Language: en
Pages: 192
Pages: 192
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-09-07 - Publisher: Routledge
Questions of the social implications of biotechnology and biological exchange (the extraction of human tissues such as blood, skin and organs for testing, stora
Language: en
Pages: 264
Pages: 264
Type: BOOK - Published: 2001 - Publisher: Crown
This disturbing and eye-opening book explores the growing trade in human DNA, blood, tissues, bones, embryos, and other commodities of the burgeoning new biotec
Language: en
Pages: 296
Pages: 296
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-01-22 - Publisher: Duke University Press
Forms of embodied labor, such as surrogacy and participation in clinical trials, are central to biomedical innovation, but they are rarely considered as labor.