Thinking (Bioeconomies) Through Care: Patients’ Engagement with the Bioeconomies of Parenting

Santoro Domingo, Pablo; Romero Bachiller, María Del Carmen

Thinking (Bioeconomies) Through Care: Patients’ Engagement with the Bioeconomies of Parenting

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https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-55651-2_12

Publication date

2017

Authors

Santoro Domingo, Pablo

Romero Bachiller, María Del Carmen

Editors

Pavone, Vincenzo

Goven, Joanna

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/96519

Citation

Santoro, P., Romero-Bachiller, C. (2017). Thinking (Bioeconomies) Through Care: Patients’ Engagement with the Bioeconomies of Parenting. In: Pavone, V., Goven, J. (eds) Bioeconomies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55651-2_12

Abstract

This chapter explores the ambivalences and tensions of parents’ engagement in health bioeconomies as forms of activating care , through the analysis of two case studies concerned with childbirth and first moments of parental life—private cord blood banking and mastitis during breastfeeding . The article focuses on parents’ contributions to the bioeconomy as providers of bodily tissues —stem cells , blood, breast milk or other samples of biological materials—to be preserved, employed in research or used to produce bio-objects by bioeconomic companies. Santoro and Romero-Bachiller draw on recent STS and feminist writing on care to argue that thinking through care allows for a more nuanced approach to the analysis of citizens’ and patients’ emergent forms of subjectivity and agency brought about by new biotechnologies.