| Description |
1 online resource (199 pages) : illustrations |
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Theory, Culture and Society Ser |
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Theory, Culture and Society Ser
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| Contents |
Bodies for sale -- whole or in parts / Nancy Scheper-Hughes -- The other kidney : biopolitics beyond recognition / Lawrence Cohen -- Commodity fetishism in organs trafficking / Nancy Scheper-Hughes -- The alienation of body tissue and the biopolitics of immortalized cell lines / Margaret Lock -- The immigrating body and the body politic : the yemenite children affair and body commodification in Israel / Meira Weiss -- The cremated catholic : the ends of a deceased Guatemalan / Stanley Brandes -- Bodies that don't matter : death and dereliction in Chicago / Eric Klinenberg -- Semen as gift, semen as goods : reproductive workers and the market in altruism / Diane M. Tober -- Excess, scarcity and desire among drug-using sex workers / Maria E. Epele -- Whores, slaves and stallions languages of exploitation and accommodation among professional boxers / Loïc Wacquant |
| Summary |
Increasingly the body is a possession that does not belong to us. It is bought and sold, bartered and stolen, marketed wholesale or in parts. The professions - especially reproductive medicine, transplant surgery, and bioethics but also journalism and other cultural specialists - have been pliant partners in this accelerating commodification of live and dead human organisms. Under the guise of healing or research, they have contributed to a new 'ethic of parts' for which the divisible body is severed from the self, torn from the social fabric, and thrust into commercial transactions -- as organs, secretions, reproductive capacities, and tissues -- responding to the dictates of an incipiently global marketplace |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Bioethics.
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Sale of organs, tissues, etc.
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Biopolitics.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Business Ethics.
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Bioethics
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Biopolitics
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Sale of organs, tissues, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Scheper-Hughes, Nancy.
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Wacquant, Loïc J. D.
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| LC no. |
2002105445 |
| ISBN |
9781849206600 |
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1849206600 |
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9781446215005 |
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1446215008 |
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1282262173 |
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9781282262171 |
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0761940332 |
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9780761940333 |
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