Hybrid UCB banks in China – public storage as ethical biocapital
| Autor: | Suli Sui, Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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0303 health sciences
Health (social science) Transparency (market) business.industry Health Policy 030305 genetics & heredity 05 social sciences Accounting 050905 science studies Archival research 03 medical and health sciences Issues ethics and legal aspects Donation Genetics Business 0509 other social sciences China Hybrid model |
| Zdroj: | New Genetics and Society. 38:60-79 |
| ISSN: | 1469-9915 1463-6778 |
| DOI: | 10.1080/14636778.2018.1549982 |
| Popis: | In China, under the heading of “private-for-public” banking, hybrid UCB banking has been politically supported by the government and is based on regulation developed since the 1990s. Although hybrid UCB banking was regarded as an “ethical” alternative to private UCB banking due to its accessibility to “the people”, this study, based on archival research and interviews with bankers, medical professionals, scientists and pregnant women contends that the practice of this ideal needs to be closely scrutinized. Analysing UCB bank networks in China in terms of “public biovalue” and “ethical biocapital”, we illustrate, first, how the synergy of public and private storage of UCB in hybrid models benefit private storage, and how transparency and oversight may increase donation and the uptake of UCB. Second, we describe the problems associated with this hybrid model. Finally, we show how the biovalue of public storage is used as ethical biocapital to buttress UCB networks. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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