Behind and beyond the (non-)use of cord blood banking: Delayed cord clamping and non-decisions
Health:: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine
Published online on May 29, 2026
Abstract
Health, Ahead of Print.
Umbilical cord blood (UCB) banking has been criticised in social science scholarship as emblematic of the neoliberal responsibilisation of parenthood. Yet this article foregrounds what most parents actually do: they donotstore UCB. Drawing on the ...
Umbilical cord blood (UCB) banking has been criticised in social science scholarship as emblematic of the neoliberal responsibilisation of parenthood. Yet this article foregrounds what most parents actually do: they donotstore UCB. Drawing on the ...