Kirjahaku

This exciting book examines how human tissues and cells are being exchanged, commodified and commercialized by new health technologies. Through a discussion of emergent global ‘tissue economies’ the author explores the social dynamics of innovation in the fields of tissue engineering and stem cell science. The book explores how regenerative medicine configures and conceptualizes bodies and argues that the development of regenerative medicine is a feminist issue. In Regenerating Bodies, Kent critically examines the transformative potential of regenerative medicine and whether it represents a paradigm shift from more traditional forms of biomedicine. The book shows that users of these technologies are gendered and women’s bodies are enrolled in the production of them in particular ways. So what is the value of a feminist bioethics for thinking about the ethical issues at stake? Drawing on extensive qualitative field research, Kent examines the issues around donation, procurement, banking and engineering of human tissues, and presents an analysis of the regulatory and policy debates surrounding these practices within Europe and the UK. The book considers the claims that regenerative medicine represents exciting possibilities for treating the diseases of ageing bodies, critically assessing what kind of futures are embodied in tissue and cell based therapies. It will be of interest to a wide range of scholars and students within the social sciences, in health technology studies, bioethics, feminist studies, and gender and health studies.

This exciting book examines how human tissues and cells are being exchanged, commodified and commercialized by new health technologies. Through a discussion of emergent global ‘tissue economies’ the author explores the social dynamics of innovation in the fields of tissue engineering and stem cell science. The book explores how regenerative medicine configures and conceptualizes bodies and argues that the development of regenerative medicine is a feminist issue. In Regenerating Bodies, Kent critically examines the transformative potential of regenerative medicine and whether it represents a paradigm shift from more traditional forms of biomedicine. The book shows that users of these technologies are gendered and women’s bodies are enrolled in the production of them in particular ways. So what is the value of a feminist bioethics for thinking about the ethical issues at stake? Drawing on extensive qualitative field research, Kent examines the issues around donation, procurement, banking and engineering of human tissues, and presents an analysis of the regulatory and policy debates surrounding these practices within Europe and the UK. The book considers the claims that regenerative medicine represents exciting possibilities for treating the diseases of ageing bodies, critically assessing what kind of futures are embodied in tissue and cell based therapies. It will be of interest to a wide range of scholars and students within the social sciences, in health technology studies, bioethics, feminist studies, and gender and health studies.

Uprooted from her hometown of Clairemont, Chloe Mattson moves to the seemingly quiet town of Hollow Creek with her father and stepmom. As she is trying to settle in, she finds an antique typewriter hidden in the closet of her new house. It doesn't take long before strange things start happening around Chloe, especially to people who have harmed her like the local high school girls who bully her.With help from her friends, Kenneth and Nikki, Chloe soon finds out that the typewriter holds hidden truths as well as answers to questions from Chloe's past. Soon Chloe finds herself in a battle of life and death between an evil machine and anyone she has ever cared about when she is forced to face her demons and the evil force haunting Hollow Creek...

Uprooted from her hometown of Clairemont, Chloe Mattson moves to the seemingly quiet town of Hollow Creek with her father and stepmom. As she is trying to settle in, she finds an antique typewriter hidden in the closet of her new house. It doesn't take long before strange things start happening around Chloe, especially to people who have harmed her like the local high school girls who bully her.With help from her friends, Kenneth and Nikki, Chloe soon finds out that the typewriter holds hidden truths as well as answers to questions from Chloe's past. Soon Chloe finds herself in a battle of life and death between an evil machine and anyone she has ever cared about when she is forced to face her demons and the evil force haunting Hollow Creek...

With the discovery of a new vendor at the yearly Clairemont Bazaar, Isobel's life is about to change. The purchase of an antique Royal typewriter for her own writing projects will turn out to be the answer to her prayers when it starts protecting her from the hands of her abusive husband. At first, she uses the unexplainable phenomenon as an advantage, but; she will soon find out the machine has an agenda of its own as its punishments start to harm innocent people. With help from Clara, a young girl who claims to have been paralyzed by the machine, Isobel finds herself in a battle of wills between herself and the typewriter in which there is no escape until the monster forces her into a face-off where the only way to win is death or destruction.