Body Bazaar: The Market for Human Tissue in the Biotechnology Age
- ISBN-10
- 0609605402
- ISBN-13
- 9780609605400
- Category
- Science / Biotechnology
- Pages
- 245
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001
- Publisher
- Crown Publishers
- Authors
- Dorothy Nelkin, Lori B. Andrews
Description
Provides a provocative and disturbing study of the growing trade in human DNA, tissue, blood, bones, embryos, and other commodities and assesses the implications of such access to biological material and genetic information in terms of scientific research, law enforcement, business, and more. 20,000 first printing.
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