Bioethics Beyond Altruism Donating and Transforming Human Biological Materials

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Author Biography

Ciara Kierans is an anthropologist based in the Department of Public Health
and Policy at the University of Liverpool. Her research is focused on Latin
America, the UK, and Ireland. She has published widely on the politics of
transplant medicine, studies of medical and scientific practice and the produc-
tion of harm.

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