Emerging Tissue Economies
Personalized Immunotherapies and Therapeutic Value in Cancer
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4564375 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Henry Llewellyn (0000-0001-6624-3046, Division of Psychiatry, University College London, London, UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 169-182 |
| Publication date | 2022-02-17 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Medical Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0145-9740 • E-ISSN: 1545-5882 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01459740.2021.1902322 |
| PMID | 33849363 |
| OpenAlex | W3152982427 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 26 |
New personalized immunotherapies hold considerable promise among cancer communities and are touted by many as the future of oncology. Described as a way to enhance the body's "natural defense" against cancer, they are made with antigens taken from patients' own tumor tissue. However, they also set up significant dilemmas for patients who are learning what it is like to participate in an emerging tissue economy and the stakes of exclusion from it. Taking brain tumors as my ethnographic case, I chart the valuations and exchanges that constitute this tissue economy as well as the dilemmas and disparities faced by patients
Cancer · Set (abstract data type · Value (mathematics · Biomedical Ethics and Regulation · CRISPR and Genetic Engineering · Internal Medicine · Medicine · Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations
Flexible Bodies
Strange Harvest
Spare Parts
Tissue Economies
When Experiments Travel
The Biotechnical Embrace
Moral (and Other) Laboratories and the Semantic Impertinence of Metaphor
The placenta economy
Moral Laboratories
Game-changing? When Biomarker Discovery and Novel Forms of Patient Work Meet
The Hoarding Economy of Endometrial Stem Cell Storage
Stem Cells, Tissue Cultures and the Production of Biovalue
The Body Multiple
Aged bodies and kinship matters
The Anthropology of Organ Transplantation
Contradictions of value
Topographies of 'care pathways' and 'healthscapes
Fairness and the Tyranny of Potential in Kidney Transplantation
The Global Traffic in Human Organs
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |