The Global Body Market

Michele Goodwin is the Everett Fraser Professor in Law at the University of Minnesota. She holds joint appointments at the University of Minnesota Medical School and the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. Prior to teaching law, Goodwin was a Gilder-Lehrman postdoctoral fellow at Yale University. She serves on the editorial boards of several journals, including Law and Social Inquiry and the Harvard/Stanford/Duke Journal of Law and the Biosciences. She is the author or editor of four books and more than sixty articles and book chapters. Her editorials and commentaries have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Forbes, Gene Watch, Christian Science Monitor, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Houston Chronicle, Chicago Sun Times and the Washington Post. She is a columnist for 'The Conversation' at the Chronicle of Higher Education.

'Since the 2006 publication of her paradigm-shifting Black Markets: The Supply and Demand of Human Body Parts, Michele Goodwin has offered startling perceptions into the commercial nature of many 'altruistic' transactions. As editor of this nuanced but visionary volume … [she] has gathered experts from various disciplines and stances: its writers are joined not by ideology but by their deep knowledge and an ability to keep you closely engaged through gripping case histories that read like novellas and inform like cutting-edge textbooks. Despite the authors' differing disciplines and stances, the book retains the harmony of a quilt, although its caveats provide little of its comfort. Several recent works have focused on life, health and the dollar, but this game-changing volume will take you where others don't.' Harriet A. Washington, author of Medical Apartheid and Deadly Monopolies

• Part I. The Blind Side of Altruism: Abuse, Coercion, and Fraud: 1. The perverse history of dead bodies under American law Ray D. Madoff; 2. Compelled body donations from children Michele Goodwin; 3. Situated bodies in medicine and research: altruism vs. compelled sacrifice Naomi Duke; 4. Quid pro quo altruism Jamila Jefferson; Part II. Contestable Commodities: 5. Free markets, free choice? A market approach to reproductive rights Debora L. Spar; 6. Exploitation in the global egg trade: emotive terminology or necessary critique? Donna Dickenson; Part III. How to Create and Manage Markets in Contestable Commodities Public and Private Regulation: 7. How to create markets in contestable commodities Richard A. Epstein; 8. Taxing the body Dorothy A. Brown; 9. Criminal policing of human experimentation L. Song Richardson; 10. Liberalizing tort law Michele Goodwin.