Title Bodies, commodities, and biotechnologies : death, mourning, and scientific desire in the realm of human organ transfer / Lesley A. Sharp

Published New York : Columbia University Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 129 pages) : illustrations Series University seminars/Leonard Hastings Schoff memorial lectures University seminars/Leonard Hastings Schoff memorial lectures Contents 1. The good death : managing and memorializing the dead -- 2. Body commodities : the medical value of the human body and its parts -- 3. Human, monkey, machine : the brave new world of human hybridity -- Epilogue. The future of the body transformed Summary "In Bodies, Commodities, and Biotechnologies, Lesley Sharp probes the ideological assumptions underlying the transfer of body parts, the social significance of donors' deaths, and the medico-scientific desires surrounding complex forms of body repair. Sharp also considers the experimental realm, in which nonhuman species and artificial devices present further opportunities for recovery and for controversy."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-124) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Organs (Anatomy) -- Social aspects -- United States Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Social aspects -- United States Human body -- Social aspects -- United States. Human body -- Symbolic aspects -- United States Death. Grief. Organ Transplantation -- ethics Death Grief Biotechnology -- ethics Human Body deaths. grief. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Disease & Health Issues. Grief Death Human body -- Social aspects Human body -- Symbolic aspects Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Social aspects Wertwandel Transplantation Ethik Körperbild Biotechnologie. Medische ethiek. Transplantatie. Organs (Anatomy) -- Social aspects -- United States. Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. -- Social aspects -- United States. Human body -- Social aspects -- United States. Human body -- Symbolic aspects -- United States. Transplantation -- etik och moral -- Förenta staterna. SUBJECT United States Subject United States USA Form Electronic book ISBN 9780231510981 0231510985

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