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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778303603321

Titolo

Commodifying bodies [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Loi?c Wacquant

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : SAGE, c2002

ISBN

9786612262173

0-7619-4033-2

1-4462-3607-2

1-282-26217-3

1-84920-660-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (199 p.) : ill

Collana

Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society

Altri autori (Persone)

Scheper-HughesNancy

WacquantLoi?c J. D

Disciplina

176.2

Soggetti

Bioethics

Sale of organs, tissues, etc

Biopolitics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Published in association with theory, Culture & Society, Nottingham Trent University"--T.p.verso.

"Originally published as Volume 7, Numbers 2-3 of Body & Society 2001"--T.p. verso.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; 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; Semen as Gift, Semen as Goods: Reproductive Workers and the Marketin Altruism; Excess, Scarcity and Desire among Drug-Using Sex Workers

Whores, Slaves and Stallions:Languages of Exploitation and Accommodation among BoxersIndex

Sommario/riassunto

This book combines perspectives from anthropology, law, medicine, and sociology to offer compelling analyses of the concrete ways in which the body is made into a commodity and how its marketization in



turn remakes social relations and cultural meanings.