Capitalização da vida nos bancos públicos de células-tronco do cordão umbilical.

Abstract

This theoretical study aims to problematize the commercialization of umbilical cord stem cells by Brazilian public banks, which offer the services of collection, cryopreservation and storage of umbilical blood. We understand that public banks drive capitalization to life through the economic and affective valuation of umbilical blood. We will focus on discussing how public banks, insofar as they regulate such capitalization, propitiate a segregation of available resources, since public access to the treatments available by the umbilical cells is still restricted to few, signaling to a resignation in the face of inequalities in which There is no question of a possible equitable distribution of the biological material in question, or even the possibility of its non-capitalization.