Cryovalues beyond High Expectations: Endurance and the Construction of Value in Cord Blood Banking

Liburkina, Ruzana

doi:10.1177/01622439221108229

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“…That is, for there to be value, there must be flows. In fact, however, circulation is not the only reason for valuation or value shifts, as is clear from many science and technology studies works that argue value involves storage as much as flows, for example, storing biological materials in a biobank (Pinel and Sventsen 2021;Liburkina 2022;Aarden 2022). We do not deny that immobility is crucial for understanding valuation processes (Delvenne 2021), but we want to emphasize that to observe mutations between different economic forms and the creation and entanglement of multiple forms of value, it is necessary to consider flows that may include storage but go beyond it to take into account a larger part of the biographies of things.…”

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Going with the Flow: Moving Cells and Changing Values in Biomedical Practice

Delvenne,

Macq,

Parotte

2023

Science, Technology, & Human Values

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Science and technology studies have devoted considerable attention to the economic implications of biomedical technoscience. This article enriches these studies by offering a new reading of several strands of literature to explore how the valuation processes of gifts, commodities, and assets are intertwined in practice. We derive this approach from an empirical analysis of autologous blood donation in the case of a cell therapy called “extracorporeal photopheresis.” Combining ethnographic fieldwork with semi-structured interviews, focus groups, and document analysis in a cell therapy laboratory at a Belgian university hospital, we followed cells in motion from their original donation to their reinjection into the body, observing the practices that constitute and shape their value. We find that the various qualifications as “gift,” “commodity,” or “asset” that cells acquire, accumulate, or relinquish, as well as the consequences of these qualifications, are accessible only by observing the valuation practices that configure living processes. Our analysis highlights the interrelations between the economic forms that living entities can take and rejects the idea of a watertight boundary between them. By emphasizing the entanglement of logics specific to donation, commodification, or assetization, we contribute to linking the value shifts observed at the level of the laboratory to broader capitalist transformations.

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Going with the Flow: Moving Cells and Changing Values in Biomedical Practice

Delvenne,

Macq,

Parotte

2023

Science, Technology, & Human Values

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“…Breithoff & Harrison, 2020;Radin, 2015;Swanson, 2014). One of the problems of this connection is that it tends to frame value as either residing in bioobjects or in their future imaginations (Tyfield 2009; see also Liburkina, 2023, for a critical perspective). 2.…”

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The stuff of memories: Planning hindsight in animal cryobanks

Braun

2024

Preprint

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Biobanks are becoming ubiquitous infrastructures in zoology and other non-human life sciences. They promise to store frozen research samples for the long term for future use. That use remains speculative but nevertheless needs to be anticipated. Following the establishment of a physical and digital infrastructure for frozen samples in an animal biobanking project, this article explores how the future is anticipated to remember the past, and how frozen objects are shaped accordingly. Situating the biobank between mundane freezing routines in a research lab and the ‘dry’ and ‘wet’ collections of natural history museums, I argue that frozen research objects need to be conserved in two separate ways. The unavailability of cryo-objects in cold storage forces researchers to store materials independently of metadata, while retaining a link between them that allows for their reunion after thawing. The result is a split object, leading a double life at sub-zero and room temperature, linked only through the surface of special plastic containers. Following the making of such split objects, this article offers an elaboration of Radin’s ‘planned hindsight’ as well as a reflection on the universality and particularity of biobanks as standardized scientific memory.

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“…All this was possible due to the recognition of the presence of a sizable number of hematopoietic stem cells in the umbilical cord as a valuable biological product. As a result, the umbilical cord was no longer thought of as a wasted tissue after delivery but rather as an alternative and valuable source of stem cells (8,9). The American Association of Blood institutions (AABB) has only recognized 76 of the 720 stem cell institutions in the world; Cell Safe Bank is one of them (10) .…”

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Pregnant Women' Knowledge and Attitudes toward Cord Blood Stem Cell Banking and Donation at Gharbia Governorate, Egypt

Awad,

EL-Said,

Khaton

2023

Tanta Scientific Nursing Journal

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Background: In the light of the increase in incidence of immunity diseases, metabolic disorders and blood diseases, the need for cord blood stem cell as therapeutic option has become essential. Parents, especially mothers need to decide if they would like to store their infant's cord blood and donate it. They need to be aware of options exists and information needed. Aim of the study was to assess pregnant women knowledge and attitudes toward cord blood stem cell banking and donation at Gharbia Governorate, Egypt. Setting: This study was conducted in Antenatal Clinics at the largest ten Central Hospitals and ten Rural Health Units in Gharbia Governorate, Egypt. Subjects: A convenient sample of one thousand (1000) pregnant women from the previous settings. Tools: Two tools were used: Tool I: Structured Interview Schedule: It included three parts: -Socio-demographic data of the pregnant women, obstetric history of the pregnant women and Pregnant Women's knowledge toward cord blood stem cells & its banking and donation. Tool II: Pregnant women' attitudes toward donation and banking of cord blood stem cells. Results: the majority (78.5%) of the studied pregnant women had low level of knowledge regarding cord blood and stem cell & its banking and donation and nearly the half (49.5%) of them had negative attitudes, with statistically significant relationship between total knowledge and attitudes scores. Education and occupation of the pregnant women have a statistically significant correlation with total knowledge and attitudes scores. Conclusion and recommendations: the levels of pregnant women knowledge and attitudes regarding cord blood stem cell banking and donation were very low and need to be improved. Therefore, it is recommended to conduct health education programs and companies through health authorities and the media to increase awareness and support pregnant women's positive attitudes toward cord blood stem cell banking and donation to develop and expand the status of umbilical cord blood banking in Egypt.

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Cryovalues beyond High Expectations: Endurance and the Construction of Value in Cord Blood Banking

Cited by 8 publications

References 58 publications

Going with the Flow: Moving Cells and Changing Values in Biomedical Practice

Going with the Flow: Moving Cells and Changing Values in Biomedical Practice

The stuff of memories: Planning hindsight in animal cryobanks

Pregnant Women' Knowledge and Attitudes toward Cord Blood Stem Cell Banking and Donation at Gharbia Governorate, Egypt

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