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Homo economicus: commercialization of body tissue in the age of biotechnology.
- Source :
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The Hastings Center report [Hastings Cent Rep] 1998 Sep-Oct; Vol. 28 (5), pp. 30-9. - Publication Year :
- 1998
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Abstract
- The human body is becoming hot property, a resource to be "mined," "harvested," patented, and traded commercially for profit as well as scientific and therapeutic advances. Under the new entrepreneurial approach to the body old tensions take on new dimensions -- about consent, the fair distribution of tissues and products developed from them, the individual and cultural values represented by the body, and public policy governing the use of organs and tissues.
- Subjects :
- Advertising
Base Sequence
Blood Donors
Cadaver
Cell Line
Conflict of Interest
Databases, Factual
Databases, Nucleic Acid
Dehumanization
Embryo, Mammalian
Entrepreneurship
Eugenics
Financial Support
Genetic Therapy
Genetic Variation
Genetics, Population
History
Humans
Informed Consent
International Cooperation
Internationality
Minority Groups
Motivation
Persons
Physicians
Prejudice
Professional Misconduct
Public Policy
Research Personnel
Social Change
Stem Cells
Trust
United States
Universities
Vulnerable Populations
Biomedical Research
Commodification
Economics
Fetal Blood
Genes
Genetic Research
Genetics
Human Body
Industry
Ownership
Patents as Topic
Research
Tissue Banks
Tissue Donors
Tissue and Organ Procurement
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0093-0334
- Volume :
- 28
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- The Hastings Center report
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 11656768