Bioethics Beyond Altruism: Donating and Transforming Human Biological Materials

Book Overview

Chapter 1: Bioethics Beyond Altruism.- Part I Stem Cells.- Chapter 2: Dead human bodies and embryos: Commonalities and disparities in ethical debate.- Chapter 3: The immortal life of ethics? The alienation of body tissue, ethics and the informed consent procedure within induced pluripotent stem cell research.- Chapter 4: On the everyday ethics of stem cell therapies in India.- Part II Assisted Human Reproduction.- Chapter 5: Towards an understanding of embryo donation in New Zealand: The views of donors and recipients.- Chapter 6: Ethics for Embryologists.- Chapter 7: Beyond Altruism: A Case for Compensated Surrogate Motherhood.- Part III Organ Donation and Transplantation.- Chapter 8: Keeping it in the family: Debating the bio-intimacy of uterine transplants and commercial surrogacy.- Chapter 9: Gift-of-life? The psychosocial experiences of heart, liver and kidney recipients.- Chapter 10: Organ donation practices and end-of-life care: Unusual bedfellows or comfortable companions?.- Chapter 11: Valued Matter: Anthropological insights on the (bio)political economy of organ exchange.- Part IV Breastmilk Exchange.- Chapter 12: Towards social maternity: Where's The Mother? Stories from a Transgender Dad as a case study of human milk sharing.- Chapter 13: Bio-intimate economies of breastmilk exchange: Peer milk sharing and donor breastmilk in the NICU.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319555316
• ISBN13: 9783319555317
• Release Date: September 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.3"