Title Banking on the body : the market in blood, milk, and sperm in modern America / Kara W. Swanson.

Publication Info.

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2014.

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Description	1 online resource (333 pages)
Contents	Banking for love and for money -- Bankable bodies and the professional donor -- Banks that take donations -- Blood battles in the Cold War -- Market backlash -- Feminine banks and the milk of human kindness -- Buying dad from the sperm bank -- Beyond the body bank.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-319) and index.
Note	Online resource (ebrary, viewed December 1, 2014); title from title page.
Subject	Blood banks -- United States -- History.
	Blood banks -- Economic aspects -- United States.
	Sperm banks -- United States -- History.
	Sperm banks -- Economic aspects -- United States.
	Breast milk -- Collection and preservation -- United States -- History.
	Breast milk -- Economic aspects -- United States.
	Biological Specimen Banks -- history.
	Biological Specimen Banks -- legislation & jurisprudence.
	History, 19th Century.
	History, 20th Century.
	History, 21st Century.
	Metaphor.
	United States.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
	POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
	HISTORY -- United States -- 20th Century.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Swanson, Kara W. Banking on the body 9780674281431 (DLC) 2013040584 (OCoLC)861478332
ISBN	9780674369481 (electronic bk.)
	0674369483 (electronic bk.)

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