A clinical labor theory of value -- The historical lineages of clinical labor : industrial order, human capital, and the outsourcing of risk -- Fertility outsourcing : contract, risk, and assisted reproductive technology -- Reproductive arbitrage : trading fertility across borders -- Regenerative labor : women and the stem cell industries -- The American experiment : from prison-academic-industrial complex to the outsourced clinic -- Speculative economies, contingent bodies : transnational trials in China and India -- The labor of distributed experiment : user-generated drug innovation
Summary
Forms of embodied labor, such as surrogacy and participation in clinical trials, are central to biomedical innovation, but they are rarely considered as labor. The authors take on that project, analyzing what they call clinical labor and asking what such an analysis might indicate about the organization of the bio-economy and the broader organization of labor and value today
