Overview
- Offers a fascinating interdisciplinary account of the human body can be used to repair, replace and reproduce
- Taps into a useful breadth of examinations of transactions that involve organs, gametes, tissue, iPSC, breast milk, and surrogate motherhood
- Explores the key bioethical issues in respect to breaches, contestations, and dilemmas around experimental and innovative medical technologies
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Introduction
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Stem Cells
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Assisted Human Reproduction
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Organ Donation and Transplantation
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About this book
Based on new empirical research, this interdisciplinary collection of original and timely essays will be of interest to students and researchers in gender and cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, science and technology studies, as well as medical professionals with an interest in health and reproduction.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Bioethics Beyond Altruism
Book Subtitle: Donating and Transforming Human Biological Materials
Editors: Rhonda M Shaw
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55532-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-55531-7Published: 12 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-85686-5Published: 10 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-55532-4Published: 31 August 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 356
Topics: Medical Sociology, Theory of Medicine/Bioethics, Bioethics, Sociology of the Body