Umbilical cord blood banking and its interruptions

Notes from Chennai, India

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2159642
AutoresSarah Hodges (0000-0003-0219-9191)
Año2013
Volumen42
Número4
Páginas651-670
Fecha de publicación2013-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEconomy and Society (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0308-5147 • E-ISSN: 1469-5766
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/03085147.2013.772759
PMID30197573
OpenAlexW2017769330
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas22

What is the relationship between globalization and the body? In both scholarly discourse and everyday practice, the relationship between globalization and the body has been understood through the idea of accumulation - the intensified and interlinked pursuit of health and wealth. Through an examination of private umbilical cord blood banking in south India, this paper investigates the interplay of accumulation and its interruption in Indians' uptake of this practice. Although Chennai-based bankers, doctors and parents explain the recent surge in popularity for cord blood banking in the city in terms of interlinked financial and familial accumulation, investment and security, Indians' cultural and religious conceptions of the latent power of the placenta and cord often work against cord blood banking marketers' neat account of twinned economic and familial accumulation. Analytic attention to interruption highlights the tensions within and precariousness of the accumulation at the heart of the relationship between globalization and the body

Business · Cord blood · Economics · Economy · Globalization · Investment (military · Market economy · Political science · Politics · Popularity · Power (physics · Sociology · Umbilical cord · Work (physics · Engineering · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Medicine · Internal Medicine · Law