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Global Bodies in Grey Zones : Hope, Health, Biotechnology

Lundin, Susanne LU orcid ; Kroløkke, Charlotte ; Petersen, Michael N. and Muller, Elmi (2016) In Stias Series of book publications 8.
Abstract
Global Bodies in Grey Zones departs from the current globalised market in biological material and treatments. Three different forms of medical travel are in focus: transplant travel, fertility travel and stem cell travel. The global travelling includes legally organised cross-border care, as well as completely illegal activities involving trafficking in bodies and body parts implicating a range of people, technologies and treatments. The theoretical focus is grey zones – various places where people, money, bodies, and so on constitute components in an international market. The authors are researchers from the cultural, social and medical sciences. They examine how people’s desperation, hopes and longing for health and reproduction fuel the... (More)
Global Bodies in Grey Zones departs from the current globalised market in biological material and treatments. Three different forms of medical travel are in focus: transplant travel, fertility travel and stem cell travel. The global travelling includes legally organised cross-border care, as well as completely illegal activities involving trafficking in bodies and body parts implicating a range of people, technologies and treatments. The theoretical focus is grey zones – various places where people, money, bodies, and so on constitute components in an international market. The authors are researchers from the cultural, social and medical sciences. They examine how people’s desperation, hopes and longing for health and reproduction fuel the travels (Less)
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editor
LU orcid ; Kroløkke, Charlotte ; Petersen, Michael N. and Muller, Elmi
organization
publishing date
type
Book/Report
publication status
published
subject
keywords
medical travel, grey zones, biotechnology, organ trade, stem cell travel, fertility travel
in
Stias Series of book publications
volume
8
pages
197 pages
publisher
African Sun Media
ISBN
978-1-928357-19-3
project
The Human Stem Cell: Health, Hope, Bioeconomy.
HOTT Actions against organ trafficking
Biomedicine at the borders. Ethnography as a model to investigate biomedicine’s moral and legal grey areas and to provide a basis for international actions (http://www.rj.se)
Cultures of Consumption
Medical humanities research node
language
English
LU publication?
yes
id
1e93c70f-1442-49ce-86be-4dcf64b3c9f3
date added to LUP
2016-10-13 14:36:58
date last changed
2021-06-10 17:54:41
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