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AIDS and the Body Politic: Biomedicine and Sexual Difference (Writing Corporealities)

Politics & Social Sciences

Waldby, Catherine

Social Sciences

Routledge

This book demonstates the extent to which establis hed ideas about the virus, the immune system, the HIV test and the epidemiology of the disease rely upon unexamined, conservative assumptions about sexual identity and sexual difference.

AIDS and the Body Politic: Biomedicine and Sexual Difference (Writing Corporealities (Paperback))

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, science studies and social studies of the computer to situate the Visible Human Project in its historical and cultural context, and to consider the meanings such an object has within a computerised culture.In this fascinating and important book, Catherine Waldby explores how advances in medical technologies have changed the way we view and study the human body, and places the VHP within the history of technologies such as the X-ray and CT-scan, which allow us to view the human interior.Bringing together medical conceptions of the human body with theories of visual culture from Foucault to Donna Haraway, Waldby links the VHP to a range of other biomedical projects, such as the Human Genome Project and cloning, which approach living bodies as data sources. She argues that the VHP is an example of the increasingly blurred distinction between `living' and 'dead' human bodies, as the bodies it uses are digitally preserved as a resource for living bodies, and considers how computer-based biotechnologies affect both medical and non-medical meanings of the body's life and death, its location and its limits.

The Visible Human Project: Informatic Bodies and Posthuman Medicine (Biofutures, Biocultures)

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, science studies and social studies of the computer to situate the Visible Human Project in its historical and cultural context, and to consider the meanings such an object has within a computerised culture. In this fascinating and important book, Catherine Waldby explores how advances in medical technologies have changed the way we view and study the human body, and places the VHP within the history of technologies such as the X-ray and CT-scan, which allow us to view the human interior. Bringing together medical conceptions of the human body with theories of visual culture from Foucault to Donna Haraway, Waldby links the VHP to a range of other biomedical projects, such as the Human Genome Project and cloning, which approach living bodies as data sources. She argues that the VHP is an example of the increasingly blurred distinction between `living' and 'dead' human bodies, as the bodies it uses are digitally preserved as a resource for living bodies, and considers how computer-based biotechnologies affect both medical and non-medical meanings of the body's life and death, its location and its limits.

The Visible Human Project

Clinical Labor: Tissue Donors and Research Subjects in the Global Bioeconomy (Experimental Futures)

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 might indicate about the organization of the bioeconomy and the broader organization of labor and value today. At the same time, they reflect on the challenges that clinical labor might pose to some of the founding assumptions of classical, Marxist, and post-Fordist theories of labor. Cooper and Waldby examine the rapidly expanding transnational labor markets surrounding assisted reproduction and experimental drug trials. As they discuss, the pharmaceutical industry demands ever greater numbers of trial subjects to meet its innovation imperatives. The assisted reproductive market grows as more and more households look to third-party providers for fertility services and sectors of the biomedical industry seek reproductive tissues rich in stem cells. Cooper and Waldby trace the historical conditions, political economy, and contemporary trajectory of clinical labor. Ultimately, they reveal clinical labor to be emblematic of labor in twenty-first-century neoliberal economies.

Cooper, Melinda

Duke University Press Books

The Visible Human Project: Informatic Bodies and Posthuman Medicine

AIDS and the Body Politic: Biomedicine and Sexual Difference

The Oocyte Economy: The Changing Meaning of Human Eggs

<div>In recent years increasing numbers of women from wealthy countries have turned to egg donation, egg freezing, and in vitro fertilization&nbsp;to become pregnant, especially later in life. This trend has created new ways of using, exchanging, and understanding oocytes--the reproductive cells specific to women. In The Oocyte Economy Catherine Waldby draws on 130 interviews---with scientists, clinicians, and women who have either donated or frozen their oocytes or received those of another woman---to trace how the history of human oocytes' perceived value intersects with the biological and social life of women. Demonstrating how oocytes have come to be understood as discrete and scarce biomedical objects open to valuation, management, and exchange, Waldby examines the global market for oocytes and the power dynamics between recipients and the often younger and poorer donors. With this exploration of the oocyte economy and its contemporary biopolitical significance, Waldby rethinks the relationship between fertility, gendered experience, and biomedical innovation.</div>

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AIDS and the Body Politic: Biomedicine and Sexual Difference (Writing Corporealities)

AIDS and the Body Politic: Biomedicine and Sexual Difference (Writing Corporealities (Paperback))

The Visible Human Project: Informatic Bodies and Posthuman Medicine (Biofutures, Biocultures)

The Visible Human Project

Clinical Labor: Tissue Donors and Research Subjects in the Global Bioeconomy (Experimental Futures)

Clinical Labor: Tissue Donors and Research Subjects in the Global Bioeconomy (Experimental Futures)

The Visible Human Project: Informatic Bodies and Posthuman Medicine

AIDS and the Body Politic: Biomedicine and Sexual Difference

The Oocyte Economy: The Changing Meaning of Human Eggs

The Oocyte Economy: The Changing Meaning of Human Eggs