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Kara W. Swanson
Banking on the Body [EPUB ebook]
The Market in Blood, Milk, and Sperm in Modern America

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Each year Americans supply blood, sperm, and breast milk to "banks" that store these products for use by strangers in medical procedures. Who gives, who receives, who profits? Kara Swanson traces body banks from the first experiments that discovered therapeutic uses for body products to current websites that facilitate a thriving global exchange.

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Format EPUB ● Pages 343 ● ISBN 9780674369481 ● Publisher Harvard University Press ● Published 2014 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 3189159 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM

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