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UNINA9910806281003321 |
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Titolo |
Commodifying bodies / / edited by Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Loic Wacquant |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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London, : Sage Publications, 2002 |
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ISBN |
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9786612262173 |
0-7619-4033-2 |
1-4462-3607-2 |
1-282-26217-3 |
1-84920-660-0 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (199 p.) : ill |
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Collana |
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Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Scheper-HughesNancy |
WacquantLoic J. D |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Bioethics |
Humanities |
Sale of organs, tissues, etc |
Biopolitics |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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"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. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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This book combines perspectives from anthropology, law, medicine, and sociology to offer compelling analyses of the concrete ways in |
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