Stem cells, tissue cultures and the production of biovalue
Stem cells, tissue cultures and the production of biovalue
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DOI：
10.1177/136345930200600304
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发表时间：
2002-07-01
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影响因子：
2.1
通讯作者：
Waldby, C
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作者：
Waldby, C
本文探讨了干细胞技术的一些社会和哲学意义。干细胞技术有望改变用于移植的健康组织的来源和流通方式;从公民向他人捐赠整个器官的社会经济转变为胚胎是治疗性组织的主要来源。本文认为，这种转变可能带来的健康，身体关系和社会负债的概念的转变。利用生物价值的概念，本文描述了胚胎生物工程作为组织来源的方式，并考虑了生物价值，健康和资本价值之间的关系。它讨论了干细胞技术可能对健康身体概念的影响，特别是对衰老的暂时性，以及对人类更普遍的理解。
This article examines some of the social and philosophical implications of stem cell technologies. Stem cell technologies promise to transform the way that healthy tissues for transplant are sourced and circulated; from a social economy in which citizens donate whole organs to others, to one in which embryos are a major source of therapeutic tissues. This article considers the transformations in concepts of health, bodily relationships and social indebtedness that such a shift might entail. Using the concept of biovalue, this article describes the ways embryos are biologically engineered to act as tissue sources, and considers the relationship between biovalue, health and capital value. It discusses the effects stem cell technologies may have on concepts of the healthy body, particularly on the temporality of ageing, and on understandings of the human more generally.