Commodifying bodies /:

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 pa...

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Weitere Verfasser: Scheper-Hughes, Nancy, Wacquant, Loïc J. D.
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: London ; Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, 2002.
Schriftenreihe:Theory, Culture and Society Ser.
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Zusammenfassung: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.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (199 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781849206600
1849206600
9781446215005
1446215008
1282262173
9781282262171
0761940332
9780761940333

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