Catherine Waldby
  1. Current research activities

    2. Currently carrying out research in social aspects of stem cell research and applications, with particular emphasis on embryonic stem cells, cord blood donation, therapeutic cloning. Research issues include the bioethics of embryo donation, and of private versus public cord blood banking.

  2. Keywords

    3. stem cells, bioethics, social aspects of embryo donation.

  3. End-user applications

    • Inform Policy makers

  4. Key publications

    5. I. Waldby, C. Rosengarten, M. Treloar, C. & Fraser, S. ‘Blood and Bioidentity: Ideas about Self, Boundaries and Risk among Blood Donors and people living with Hepatitis C’, Social Science and Medicine 2004 (in press).
    II. Waldby, C. and Squier, S. 'Ontogeny, Ontology and Phylogeny: Embryonic Life and Stem Cell Technologies' Configuration: a Journal of Literature and Science Winter 2003 volume 11, no.1 (in press).
    III. Waldby, Catherine 'Biomedicine, Tissue Transfer and Intercorporeality' Feminist Theory, 2002,Vol. 3 (3): 235-250
    IV. Waldby, Catherine ‘Stem Cells, Tissue Cultures and the Production of Biovalue’ Health: an Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine Vol. 6. No. 3 2002: 305-323.
    V. Waldby, Catherine and Mitchell, Robert Tissue Economies: Gifts, Commodities, and Citizenship Book Manuscript under consideration by Cambridge UP and Duke UP.

  5. Outreach activities

    6. None as yet.

  6. Key organisation membership

    7. None as yet.

  7. Early career researcher?

    8. No.

  8. strong>Young investigator?

    9. No.

  9. Skills and expertise

    • bioethics
    • international regulation
    • good international contacts in social studies of biotechnology

  10. Specialist equipment and infrastructure

    • Not as yet

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