RODRIGUES, Renata Vilela.; GALINDO, Dolores Cristina Gomes.; LEMOS, Flávia Cristina Silveira.
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.