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Clinical Labor: Tissue Donors and Research Subjects in the Global Bioeconomy
Melinda Cooper
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Description for Clinical Labor: Tissue Donors and Research Subjects in the Global Bioeconomy
Paperback. Forms of embodied labor, such as surrogacy and participation in clinical trials, are central to biomedical innovation, but they are rarely considered as labor. This book examines the rapidly expanding transnational labor markets surrounding assisted reproduction and experimental drug trials. Series: Experimental Futures. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: JHBL; JHM; MFKC1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 231 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 406.
Forms of embodied labor, such as surrogacy and participation in clinical trials, are central to biomedical innovation, but they are rarely considered as labor. Melinda Cooper and Catherine Waldby take on that project, analyzing what they call "clinical labor," and asking what such an analysis might indicate about the organization of the bioeconomy and the broader organization of labor and value today. At the same time, they reflect on the challenges that clinical labor might pose to some of the founding assumptions of classical, Marxist, and post-Fordist theories of labor.
Cooper and Waldby examine the rapidly expanding transnational labor ... Read more
Forms of embodied labor, such as surrogacy and participation in clinical trials, are central to biomedical innovation, but they are rarely considered as labor. Melinda Cooper and Catherine Waldby take on that project, analyzing what they call "clinical labor," and asking what such an analysis might indicate about the organization of the bioeconomy and the broader organization of labor and value today. At the same time, they reflect on the challenges that clinical labor might pose to some of the founding assumptions of classical, Marxist, and post-Fordist theories of labor.
Cooper and Waldby examine the rapidly expanding transnational labor ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Duke University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
Experimental Futures
Condition
New
Weight
405 g
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822356226
SKU
V9780822356226
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99-1
About Melinda Cooper
Melinda Cooper is a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sydney. She is the author of Life as Surplus: Biotechnology and Capitalism in the Neoliberal Era. Catherine Waldby is a Professorial Future Fellow in the Department of Sociology and Social Policy at the University of Sydney. She is coauthor, with ... Read more
Reviews for Clinical Labor: Tissue Donors and Research Subjects in the Global Bioeconomy
“In the literature on contributors to medical knowledge, attention is most often focused on basic and applied researchers, funders, and regulators. In Clinical Labor, Cooper and Waldby focus on an essential, overlooked, and perhaps exploited population, that of research subjects. The authors are at their strongest in applying a Marxist theoretical perspective to class in medical research and the need ... Read more