Commodifying Bodies

Name: Commodifying Bodies
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ISBN: 9780761940340

ISBN-10: 0761940340

ISBN-13: 9780761940340

Edition: 2003

Authors: Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Loï¿½c Wacquant

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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…

Book details

List price: $82.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: SAGE Publications, Limited
Publication date: 4/3/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 200
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English



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