Tissue Economies: Blood, Organs, and Cell Lines in Late Capitalism (Science and Cultural Theory)
“Tissue Economiesasks us to think about biological materials as inseparable from the networks of exchange, gift, and excess that condition their value to us. Catherine Waldby and Robert Mitchell show us a new body politic, one in which the organs, tissues, and fluids exist as much outside of and between bodies as they do within them.”—Eugene Thacker, author ofThe Global Genome: Biotechnology, Politics, and Culture