Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: Gifts, Commodities, and Human Tissues 1
5. PART I Tissue Banks: Managing the Tissue Economy
6. 1 Blood Banks, Risk, and Autologous Donation: The Gift of Blood to Oneself 31
7. 2 Disentangling the Embryonic Gift: The UK Stem Cell Bank 59
8. PART II Waste and Tissue Economies
9. 3 The Laws of Mo(o)re: Waste, Biovalue, and Information Ecologies 83
10. 4 Umbilical Cord Blood: Waste, Gift, Venture Capital 110
11. PART III Biogifts of Capital 131
12. 5 Commodity-Communities and Corporate Commons 131
13. 6 Real-Time Demand: Information, Regeneration, and Organ Markets 160
14. Conclusion: The Future of Tissue Economies 181
15. Notes 189
16. Bibliography 207
17. Index 227