Body Shopping: Converting Body Parts to Profit - Couverture souple

Dickenson, Donna

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1851686231 ISBN 13 : 9781851686230

Editeur : Oneworld Publications, 2009

Synopsis

Our tissues, genes, and organs are becoming, in the words of the head of one pharmaceutical company, ‘the currency of the future’. From the trafficking of women for their eggs to ‘beauty junkies’ and designer gene repair kits, Donna Dickenson reveals the myriad and often ingenious ways that body parts are converted into profits.

Despite what the media – or even your doctor – might say, the current biotechnological gold rush is not inevitable and can be resisted. This gripping, powerful book is essential reading for anyone concerned with the ownership and the commercial use (and abuse) of our bodies and those of our loved ones. The fight isn't over yet. Indeed, it’s hardly begun.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Emeritus Professor of Medical Ethics andHumanities at the University of London, Donna Dickenson is a prize-winning author who recently won the Spinoza Lens award for her contributions to public debate on ethics. Expert witness to the House of Commons Science and Technology Committee and a member of several ethics committees, she has explored such weighty bioethical issues as death and dying, face and hand transplants, reproductive rights, and the use of women's tissues in stem-cell research. She is a regular contributor to radio and television, and has been profiled in The Times and in the foreign press.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Oneworld Publications
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1851686231
• ISBN 13: 9781851686230
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible