ISBN:
9781849206600
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (166 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Print version Commodifying Bodies
DDC:
306.4
Keywords:
Sale of organs, tissues, etc
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Humanities
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Bioethics
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Biopolitics
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Biopolitics
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Electronic books
Abstract:
With rapid developments in reproductive medicine, transplant ethics and bioethics, a new `ethic of parts' has emerged in which the body is increasingly seen as a commodity which can be bartered, sold or stolen. This book combines perspectives from anthropology and sociology to offer compelling new readings of the body.
Abstract:
Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Body & Society -- Bodies for Sale - Whole or in Parts -- The Other Kidney: Biopolitics beyond Recognition -- Commodity Fetishism in Organs Trafficking -- The Alienation of Body Tissue and the Biopolitics of Immortalized Cell Lines -- The Immigrating Body and the Body Politic: The 'Yemenite Children Affair' and Body Commodification in Israel -- The Cremated Catholic: The Ends of a Deceased Guatemalan -- Bodies that Don't Matter: Death and Dereliction in Chicago -- Semen as Gift, Semen as Goods: Reproductive Workers and the Market in Altruism -- Excess, Scarcity and Desire among Drug-Using Sex Workers -- Whores, Slaves and Stallions: Languages of Exploitation and Accommodation among Professional Boxers -- Index.
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