Ontogeny, Ontology, and Phylogeny: Embryonic Life and Stem Cell Technologies
Ontogeny, Ontology, and Phylogeny: Embryonic Life and Stem Cell Technologies
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个体发育、本体论和系统发育:胚胎生命和干细胞技术
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2004
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S. Squier
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C. Waldby;S. Squier
2. The profitability of such waste body parts has lead to several legal attempts to gain ownership or patent rights for the donors in subsequent profits. See Paul Rabinow, “Severing the Ties: Fragmentation and Dignity in Late Modernity,” in idem, Essays on the Anthropology of Reason (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1996); Robert Mitchell, “$ell: The Rhetorical Ecology of ‘Dignity,’ ‘Waste,’ and ‘Information’ in U.S. Tissue Economies” (unpublished MS, 2003) on the now well analyzed case of Moore v. the Regents of University of California for accounts of the stakes in such cases. Biomedicine and biotechnology increasingly draw on marginal forms of living tissue as sources of therapeutic substances. More and more biomedical treatments rely on the collection, storage, transformation, and redistribution of tissues, the development of new kinds of “separable, exchangeable, and reincorporable body parts.”1 Some of these tissues—cancerous cells, placentas, DNA extracted from saliva—are considered marginal, or indeed dangerous, to the continuing life of the donor. As Robert Mitchell points out, these tissues are, generally speaking, collected and technically transformed with little social objection or controversy, precisely because of their status as waste.2 As such, they are relatively open to forms of commodification and patent, and form the basis for an increasingly lucrative biotechnology industry: