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Body Shopping
According to law you dont actually own your own body and you might be shocked by the cunning ways everyone from researchers and entrepreneurs to doctors insurers and governments are using that fact to their advantage. Thanks to developments in biotechnology and medicine cells tissues and organs are now viewed as both a valuable source of information and as the raw material for new commercial products.This currency of the future might be fueling the new biotechnology industry but the former owners of that flesh and bone arent entitled to one fraction of the proceeds. In Body Shopping" award-winning writer Donna Dickenson makes a case against the newfound rights of businesses to harvest body parts and gain exclusive profit from the resulting products and processes. To illustrate her
case she presents a series of compelling stories of individuals injured or abused by the increasingly rapacious biotechnology industry. Some cases have become public scandals such as the illicit selling of the late broadcaster Alastair Cookes bones by a body parts ring involving surgeons and undertakers.Others are hardly known at all including the way in which for-profit umbilical cord blood banks target pregnant women with offers of a service that professional obstetrics bodies view as dangerous the leukemia patient who tried and failed to claim property rights in a $3 billion cell line created from his tissue and the real risks facing women who provide eggs for the global market in baby-making. "Body Shopping" offers a fresh international and completely up-to-date take on the
evolving legal position the historical long view and the latest biomedical research - an approach that goes beyond a mere recital of horror stories to suggest a range of new strategies to bring the biotechnology industry to heel. The result is a gripping powerful book that is essential reading for everyone from parents to philosophers and from scientists to lawmakers - everyone who believes that no human should ever be reduced to the sum of their body parts."
case she presents a series of compelling stories of individuals injured or abused by the increasingly rapacious biotechnology industry. Some cases have become public scandals such as the illicit selling of the late broadcaster Alastair Cookes bones by a body parts ring involving surgeons and undertakers.Others are hardly known at all including the way in which for-profit umbilical cord blood banks target pregnant women with offers of a service that professional obstetrics bodies view as dangerous the leukemia patient who tried and failed to claim property rights in a $3 billion cell line created from his tissue and the real risks facing women who provide eggs for the global market in baby-making. "Body Shopping" offers a fresh international and completely up-to-date take on the
evolving legal position the historical long view and the latest biomedical research - an approach that goes beyond a mere recital of horror stories to suggest a range of new strategies to bring the biotechnology industry to heel. The result is a gripping powerful book that is essential reading for everyone from parents to philosophers and from scientists to lawmakers - everyone who believes that no human should ever be reduced to the sum of their body parts."
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