Exchanging Human Bodily Material: Rethinking Bodies and Markets

• Main Author: Hoeyer, Klaus (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Subjects: Ethics.; Medical ethics.; Health economics.; Medical economics.; Economics.; Health Economics.; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.

This book addresses the debate usually tagged as being about ’markets in human body parts’ which is antagonistically divided into pro-market and anti-market positions. The author provides a set of propositions about how to approach this and shows a way out of the concrete impasse of it. Assumptions...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. What is a market?
• 3. What is a human body?.-4. Ubject exchange as everyday practice
• 5. Ubjectology
• 6.      Conclusion.