Liminal biopolitics: Towards a political anthropology of the umbilical cord and the placenta

Body and Society

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 73-93

  Santoro, Pablo ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

biomedicine; biopolitics; body parts; cord blood; transplant

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952976017     PISSN: 1357034X     EISSN: 14603632     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1357034X10394668     Document Type: Article

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