Catherine Waldby: 4 books

Book cover of The Visible Human Project

The Visible Human Project

Informatic Bodies and Posthuman Medicine

by Catherine Waldby
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003

The Visible Human Project is a critical investigation of the spectacular, three-dimensional recordings of real human bodies - dissected, photographed and converted into visual data files - made by the US National Library of Medicine in Baltimore. Catherine Waldby uses new ideas from cultural studies,...
Book cover of Tissue Economies

Tissue Economies

Blood, Organs, and Cell Lines in Late Capitalism

by Catherine Waldby, Robert Mitchell, Barbara Herrnstein Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2006

As new medical technologies are developed, more and more human tissues—such as skin, bones, heart valves, embryos, and stem cell lines—are stored and distributed for therapeutic and research purposes. The accelerating circulation of human tissue fragments raises profound social and ethical concerns...
Book cover of Clinical Labor

Clinical Labor

Tissue Donors and Research Subjects in the Global Bioeconomy

by Melinda Cooper, Catherine Waldby
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2014

Forms of embodied labor, such as surrogacy and participation in clinical trials, are central to biomedical innovation, but they are rarely considered as labor. Melinda Cooper and Catherine Waldby take on that project, analyzing what they call "clinical labor," and asking what such an analysis...
Book cover of AIDS and the Body Politic

AIDS and the Body Politic

Biomedicine and Sexual Difference

by Catherine Waldby
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2003

First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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