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Titolo: |
Commodifying bodies / / edited by Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Loic Wacquant
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Pubblicazione: | London, : Sage Publications, 2002 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (199 p.) : ill |
Disciplina: | 176.2 |
Soggetto topico: | Bioethics |
Humanities | |
Sale of organs, tissues, etc | |
Biopolitics | |
Altri autori: |
Scheper-HughesNancy
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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 |
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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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Commodifying bodies ![]() |
ISBN: | 9786612262173 |
0-7619-4033-2 | |
1-4462-3607-2 | |
1-282-26217-3 | |
1-84920-660-0 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910806281003321 |
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