Tissue Economies: Blood, Organs, and Cell Lines in Late Capitalism
By Catherine Waldby and Robert Mitchell
Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006, ISBN 0-8223-3770-3
Price $21.95, pp. 231
Reviewed by Heather Bennett
Journal of High Technology Law
Suffolk University Law School
https://www.law.suffolk.edu/highlights/stuorgs/jhtl/book_reviews/2006_2007/Heather%20Bennett%20Book%20Review.pdf
Many Americans around the New York City area rallied together to help in any way they could. The form most helped in was giving blood. The blood donations could not be all used, some were wasted. The gift - commodity debate continues throughout the paper. The paper writes about how a U.K. Stem Cell Bank and how it operates on a daily basis. They say that all rights to own the tissues are lost when the donor signs over the tissue under a consent agreement. Stem cells are a hot topic in this debate over whether people should be allowed to keep their tissues. They believe the scientists should be able to make all the money they can off of signed tissues due to the capitalist state of mind.
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