Bioethics Beyond Altruism Donating and Transforming Human Biological Materials

262 M. Coombs and M. Woods Truog, R. D., Campbell, M. L., Curtis, J. R., Haas, C. E., Luce, J. M., et al. (2008). Recommendation ...

10 Organ Donation Practices and End-of-life Care ... 263 Authors’ Biography Maureen Coombs is a Professor in Clinical Nursing (C ...

... [T]hings are thick with politics. And I mean politics with a lowercase “p”: not the politics of politicians, but a broad ran ...

266 C. Kierans Organs-for-transplant are things of a different kind. They are at once “natural” and “technical”—biotic component ...

11 Valued Matter: Anthropological Insights ... 267 studies that have sought the ways in which organs-for-transplant are understo ...

268 C. Kierans 2006 ; Rose 2007 ), as well as the various processes of capitalisation on which they simultaneously depend and gi ...

11 Valued Matter: Anthropological Insights ... 269 transplant medicine elsewhere for granted, and to show instead how a comparat ...

270 C. Kierans Servants). Private health insurers for highly paid workers constitute around 2% of the whole (INEGI 2012 ). For t ...

11 Valued Matter: Anthropological Insights ... 271 What follows in this chapter is heavily indebted to contemporary work in the ...

272 C. Kierans healthcare providers, pharmacists, lab technicians, psychologists, social workers and many others besides. To sup ...

11 Valued Matter: Anthropological Insights ... 273 (Esping-Anderson 1990 ), Mexico and its growing constituency of kid- ney pati ...

274 C. Kierans require patients and their families to request referral letters from their doctors. These referrals do not move p ...

11 Valued Matter: Anthropological Insights ... 275 of a growing transplant industry. It is the labour of Mexican patients and th ...

276 C. Kierans For Gloria to donate her kidney as a “gift” to Carlos, she had to resource it, financially and morally.^7 For Car ...

11 Valued Matter: Anthropological Insights ... 277 from the routines of economic life, it paradoxically suggests a “pure” form o ...

278 C. Kierans critical instance of the infusion of life by politics (Arendt 1958 ), which, when harnessed to the interests of o ...

11 Valued Matter: Anthropological Insights ... 279 Mexico—All of Our Futures? I want to tease out, in this final section, how mo ...

280 C. Kierans Despite the apparent functioning of this system, not everyone who needs a transplant gets one. What is more the r ...

11 Valued Matter: Anthropological Insights ... 281 In comparing Mexico and the UK, it would be an over-simplification to suggest ...

282 C. Kierans able to do so (Polayni 1944 ). The “benign” practices of valuation associ- ated with an older political economy o ...