De seksparadox en het emancipatiemonster
In: Sociologie: tijdschrift, Band 10, Heft 1, S. 69-72
ISSN: 1875-7138
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In: Sociologie: tijdschrift, Band 10, Heft 1, S. 69-72
ISSN: 1875-7138
In: Sociologie: tijdschrift, Band 9, Heft 3, S. 245-257
ISSN: 1875-7138
In: Body & society, Band 12, Heft 2, S. 1-23
ISSN: 1460-3632
The emergence of a new tissue economy raises issues for the governance of risk and concepts of the body and self. This article explores the development of autologous cell therapies as a form of tissue engineering and considers how and why autologous applications are seen as less risky and more socially and politically acceptable. In a careful analysis of contemporary debates around the need for new international policies to regulate these technologies, we critically assess the discursive strategies employed to support ideas of the body as a natural entity. Central to these debates are assumptions that autologous applications do not threaten the moral or corporeal integrity of the individual and that they are 'an ethics-free zone'. Analysis reveals that concepts such as intercorporeality need to be refined if they are to assist our understanding of these cell-based therapies. We consider the biopolitics of Autologous Chondrocyte Implantation (ACI) in order to show the linkages between the culturing of cells, regulation and the reproduction of the self.