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Bioethics Beyond Altruism introduces an edited collection of original essays by scholars working in the social sciences, medicine and humanities on research in the areas of stem cell therapy, assisted human reproduction, organ donation and transplantation, and breastmilk sharing. This chapter theoretically frames the collection around body part and tissue provision through the lens of altruism and gift and commodity relations; bioethical conundrums around the circulation of human biological materials and their legal and regulatory limits in the global context; the economic benefits and health values attributed to various bodily products and their derivatives; and the matter of immaterial labour and affective relations between donors , recipients and other actors involved in tissue provision and exchange processes.

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Shaw, R.M. (2017). Bioethics Beyond Altruism. In: Shaw, R. (eds) Bioethics Beyond Altruism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55532-4_1

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