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Kara Swanson All Experts

Associate Professor of Law

Expertise
  • history of science; medicine; and technology
  • intellectual property
Contact
k.swanson@neu.edu
617.373.8288
@KaraWSwanson

Kara Swanson In the Media

  • Bloomberg

    For Black Inventors, Road to Owning Patents Paved With Barriers

  • The Wall Street Journal

    The new gene tool crisper sparks a history war

  • Wired

    Organ banking: from impossible to slightly less impossible

  • Slate

    Egg-freezing parties aren’t like tupperware parties

  • The Atlantic

    Banks of blood and sperm

  • WBUR

    Blood, sperm, milk: The thriving market in human body products

  • Boston Globe

    The trouble with organ banking

  • Slate

    The surprisingly engrossing history of patent examiners

  • The Atlantic

    The surprising birthplace of the first sperm bank

  • TechTarget

    Microsoft provides data center ‘blueprints’ to Open Compute Project

Kara Swanson for Northeastern

  • Should human organs be for sale?


    “I’m not arguing that all body products should be collected and distributed in the same way,” says Kara Swanson, an associate professor of law at Northeastern University, “but I think that history suggests that we would be well-served by setting aside our instinctive fear of paid body products as an historic artifact.”

    • by Jason Kornwitz   April 9, 2015
  • 3Qs: Banking on the body


    Are body products like blood, milk, and sperm marketable commodities, gifts to help others, or both? Kara Swanson, an associate professor of law with expertise in the history of science and medicine, explains the origins and consequences of the debate in her new book “Banking on the Body.”

    • by Jason Kornwitz   May 9, 2014

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