New Cannibal Markets
Globalization and Commodification of the Human Body
Thanks to recent progress in biotechnology, surrogacy, transplantation of organs and tissues, blood products or stem-cell and gamete banks are now widely used throughout the world. These techniques improve the health and well-being of some human beings using products or functions that come from the body of others. Growth in demand and absence of an appropriate international legal framework have led to the development of a lucrative global trade in which victims are often people living in insec...
Éditeur : Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l’homme
Lieu d’édition : Paris
Publication sur OpenEdition Books : 19 décembre 2017
ISBN numérique : 978-2-7351-2285-1
DOI : 10.4000/books.editionsmsh.10732
Collection : 54 | 11
Année d’édition : 2015
ISBN (Édition imprimée) : 978-2-7351-1998-1
Nombre de pages : 432
Jean-Daniel Rainhorn
Globalization and Misuses of Biotechnologies: Back to Cannibalism?Part 1. Trading in the Human Body
Samira El Boudamoussi et Vincent Barras
New Markets, Old Questions?Jean-Jacques Courtine
Rest in Pieces: A Short Genealogy of Cannibal MarketsSamia A. Hurst
To Ban or Not to Ban: The Ethics of Selling Body PartsSamira El Boudamoussi
The Value of Life: Religions and CommodificationPart 2. Wombs for Rent
René Frydman
How Do We Balance Risk and Desire?Elisabeth Beck-Gernsheim
Danish Sperm and Indian Wombs: Fertility TourismSarojini Nadimpally
For Motherhood and for Market: Commercial Surrogacy in IndiaEtti Samama
Within Me, But Not Mine: Surrogacy in IsraelPart 3. Brain Theft
Alex Mauron
Is Brain Drain Cannibalism?Delanyo Dovlo et Sheila Mburu
An Unfair Trade? Mobility of Africa’s Health ProfessionalsNicola Suyin Pocock
Double Movement: Health Professionals and Patients in Southeast AsiaBarbara L. Brush
Selective Immigration: Nurse Importation by Developed CountriesPart 4. Organs for Sale
Philippe Steiner
Is Transplantation Tourism a Form of Cannibal Market?Jacob A. Akoh
State of the Trade: World Transplant TourismRafael Matesanz et Beatriz Mahíllo
Lessons in Donation: The Spanish Experience in Latin AmericaMitra Mahdavi-Mazdeh
An Alternative to Trade: The Iran ExperienceNancy Scheper-Hughes
The Ends of the Body: Neocannibalism and Military NecropoliticsPart 5. The Human-Product-Banking Industry
Vinh-Kim Nguyen
Do Human Body Parts Have a Social Life?Jean-Daniel Tissot, Olivier Garraud, Jean-Jacques Lefrère et al.
Selling Donations: Ethics and Transfusion MedicinePart 6. The Bigger Picture
Philippe Goyens
What else? Development, Gender, and Human-RightsFirouzeh Nahavandi
From Colonization to Neocolonization: New Forms of ExploitationJudit Sándor
Commodified Bodies: Is It a Gender Issue?Debra Budiani-Saberi et Seán Columb
Trafficking in Persons for the Removal of Organs: A Human-Rights ApproachPart 7. Mapping National and International Responses
Edward Kelley
Questions for the futureLuc Noël et Dominique Martin
Medical Products of Human Origin: Towards Global Governance ToolsAlexander M. Capron
Human Commodification: Professions, Governments, and the Need for Further ExplorationJean-Daniel Rainhorn et Samira El Boudamoussi
ConclusionThanks to recent progress in biotechnology, surrogacy, transplantation of organs and tissues, blood products or stem-cell and gamete banks are now widely used throughout the world. These techniques improve the health and well-being of some human beings using products or functions that come from the body of others. Growth in demand and absence of an appropriate international legal framework have led to the development of a lucrative global trade in which victims are often people living in insecure conditions who have no other ways to survive than to rent or sell part of their body. This growing market, in which parts of the human body are bought and sold with little respect for the human person, displays a kind of dehumanization that looks like a new form of slavery.
This book is the result of a collective and multidisciplinary reflection organized by a group of international researchers working in the field of medicine and social sciences. It helps better understand how the emergence of new health industries may contribute to the development of a global medical tourism. It opens new avenues for reflection on technologies that are based on appropriation of parts of the body of others for health purposes, a type of practice that can be metaphorically compared to cannibalism. Are these the fi rst steps towards a proletariat of men- and women-objects considered as a reservoir of products of human origin needed to improve the health or well-being of the better-off? The book raises the issue of the uncontrolled use of medical advances that can sometimes reach the anticipations of dystopian literature and science fiction.
Jean-Daniel Rainhorn is professor of international health and humanitarian action and holds the Social Inequalities, Health and Humanitarian Action chair at the College of Global Studies, Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme in Paris. Previously he was professor of international health at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva and director of the Geneva Center for Education and Research in Humanitarian Action. He was also invited professor of development studies and/or humanitarian assistance in various universities, including the Université libre de Bruxelles, Leopold Senghor University of Alexandria, Hanoi School of Public Health and Tel Aviv University, as well as former director of CREDES in Paris, and author of numerous articles, reports and books.
Samira El Boudamoussi is a researcher at the College of Global Studies, Fondation Maison des sciences de l’homme in Paris, and visiting researcher at the Centre of Studies on International Cooperation and Development of the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB). She earned her PhD in education from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili in Tarragona and conducted various research projects at the ULB and Universitat Autònoma of Barcelona. The overarching theme of her research is science– technology–society: how society relates to scientific knowledge and technical advances, and how these are used in personal and public decision-making.
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