Family affairs: public and private cord blood banking in Italy



Preserving the umbilical cord blood (UCB) of a newborn child in a private biobank for possible future family uses is criticized by bioethical and biomedical literature as challenging the moral economy of donating cord blood to public banks for being used in transplantations.
Donation to public banks is described as embedded in the social relations of reciprocity, solidarity, and obligation to

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