'At least our pituitaries will see the world': Pituitary gland export from communist Bulgaria.

IF 1.1 2区 哲学 Q4 HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES
Daniela Koleva
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Abstract

The article focuses on the export of cadaveric pituitary glands from communist Bulgaria in the 1980s, used for the production of human growth hormone. The case is explored in the broader context of practices and transnational networks for the supply of pituitaries. Special attention is paid to the changes resulting from the turn to the production of recombinant growth hormone in the mid-1980s, which put an end to the international 'market' of pituitary glands. In the last sections, different perspectives are explored to make sense of the case under scrutiny: those of bioethics and biolaw, on the one hand, and of bioeconomy in a globalising world, on the other.

“至少我们的脑下垂体能看到世界”:保加利亚脑下垂体出口。
这篇文章的重点是20世纪80年代保加利亚出口的尸体脑垂体,用于生产人类生长激素。该案例是在实践和跨国网络的垂体供应的更广泛的背景下进行探讨。特别关注的是20世纪80年代中期转向生产重组生长激素所造成的变化,这结束了脑下垂体的国际“市场”。在最后的章节中,我们从不同的角度探讨了这个案例的意义:一方面是生物伦理学和生物法,另一方面是全球化世界中的生物经济。
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Medical History
Medical History 医学-科学史与科学哲学
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1.60
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发文量
25
审稿时长
>12 weeks
期刊介绍: Medical History is a refereed journal devoted to all aspects of the history of medicine and health, with the goal of broadening and deepening the understanding of the field, in the widest sense, by historical studies of the highest quality. It is also the journal of the European Association for the History of Medicine and Health. The membership of the Editorial Board, which includes senior members of the EAHMH, reflects the commitment to the finest international standards in refereeing of submitted papers and the reviewing of books. The journal publishes in English, but welcomes submissions from scholars for whom English is not a first language; language and copy-editing assistance will be provided wherever possible.
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