Insider Trading by Naomi Pfeffer
The cadaver industry in Britain and the United States, its processes and profits
'Naomi Pfeffer's Insider Trading provides a compelling insight into the organisations, practices and forms of exchange that transformed "cadaver stuff" into crucial raw materials for modern medicine'—Duncan Wilson, author of The Making of British Bioethics -- Duncan Wilson
'Looking beyond the ethical and conceptual reflection on transplant medicine, Naomi Pfeffer’s absorbing history raises the curtain on tissue economies at large. It is a monument to ingenuity, tracking convergence and divergence between the US and the UK across the last century. This is a story of pioneering inventiveness, of motives, misunderstandings and mistakes, of catastrophic consequences and missed opportunities – human endeavour as usual. And, through its insistent documentation, this powerful book raises questions we could not have asked before about what we do to, with and for the body.'
-- Marilyn Strathern, Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge. -- Marilyn Strathern
“In this pacy, detailed chronicle, Naomi Pfeffer reveals how hundreds of products are traded in US and UK markets, from skin for dressing leg ulcers (plastic-packed like American cheese) to the ground bone mixed into fixative for prosthetic limbs.”—Nature * Nature *
'Looking beyond the ethical and conceptual reflection on transplant medicine, Naomi Pfeffer’s absorbing history raises the curtain on tissue economies at large. It is a monument to ingenuity, tracking convergence and divergence between the US and the UK across the last century. This is a story of pioneering inventiveness, of motives, misunderstandings and mistakes, of catastrophic consequences and missed opportunities – human endeavour as usual. And, through its insistent documentation, this powerful book raises questions we could not have asked before about what we do to, with and for the body.'
-- Marilyn Strathern, Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Cambridge. -- Marilyn Strathern
“In this pacy, detailed chronicle, Naomi Pfeffer reveals how hundreds of products are traded in US and UK markets, from skin for dressing leg ulcers (plastic-packed like American cheese) to the ground bone mixed into fixative for prosthetic limbs.”—Nature * Nature *
Naomi Pfeffer is author of The Stork and the Syringe: A Political History of Reproductive Medicine and an associate of University College London. She lives in London.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780300118551 |
| ISBN 10 | 0300118554 |
| Title | Insider Trading |
| Author | Naomi Pfeffer |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Yale University Press |
| Year published | 2017-08-22 |
| Number of pages | 376 |
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