A thoughtful, intelligent, highly readable work written by someone with impeccable credentials...In the 1960s Rachel Carson's Silent Spring launched the avalanche of the environmental movement. Perhaps Body Shopping will do the same for the body rights campaign.' - Fay Weldon, Financial Times Our tissues, genes, and organs are becoming, in the words of the head of one pharmaceutical company, the currency of the future’. From the trafficking of women for their eggs to beauty junkies’, Donna Dickenson reveals the myriad and often ingenious ways that body parts are converted into profits. But despite what the media or even your doctor might say, the current biotechnological gold rush is not inevitable and can be resisted. The fight isn't over yet. Indeed, it’s hardly begun. Donna Dickenson is the first woman recipient of the International Spinoza Lens award for her contribution to public debate on ethics. American by birth, she is Professor Emerita of Medical Ethics and Humanities at the University of London, UK.
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About the Author:
Donna Dickenson is the first woman recipient of the International Spinoza Lens award for her contribution to public debate on ethics. She is Professor Emerita of Medical Ethics and Humanities at the University of London, and former John Ferguson Professor of Global Ethics at the University of Birmingham, UK. She is a regular contributor to radio and television, and has been profiled in The Times and in the foreign press. www.donnadickenson.net
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'Alarming and illuminating. No one with any interest at all in medicine and society and how they interact should miss this.'--Philip Pullman
'Blending shrewd policy analysis with a gift for storytelling, Donna Dickenson offers a riveting expose of the modern marketplace for human body parts and a compelling call to action." --Lori Andrews, Law professor, co-author of "Genetics: Ethics, Law and Policy" and author of the novel, "The Silent Assassin"
'Ambitious and thoughtful...This book could not be more timely.'--New Scientist
'A thoughtful, intelligent, highly readable work written by someone with impeccable credentials...In the 1960s Rachel Carson's Silent Spring launched the avalanche of the environmental movement. Perhaps Body Shopping will do the same for the body rights campaign.'--Fay Weldon, Financial Times
'Essential...I defy anyone to read this book without being just a little shocked.'--The Lancet
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- PublisherOneworld Publications
- Publication date2009
- ISBN 10 1851686231
- ISBN 13 9781851686230
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages240
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