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Record Nr.

UNINA9910960238803321

Titolo

Commodifying bodies / / edited by Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Loic Wacquant

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : Sage Publications, 2002

London : , : Sage Publications, , 2002

ISBN

9786612262173

9780761940333

0761940332

9781446236079

1446236072

9781282262171

1282262173

9781849206600

1849206600

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (199 p.) : ill

Collana

Published in association with Theory, Culture & Society

Altri autori (Persone)

Scheper-HughesNancy

WacquantLoïc J. D

Disciplina

176.2

Soggetti

Bioethics

Humanities

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,



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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.