Bodies, commodities, and biotechnologies : death, mourning, and scientific desire in the realm of human organ transfer / / Lesley A. Sharp

• Autore: Sharp Lesley Alexandra
• Pubblicazione: New York : , : Columbia University Press, , 2007; ©2007
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 129 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 306.4
• Soggetto topico: Organs (Anatomy) - Social aspects - United States; Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc - Social aspects - United States; Human body - Social aspects - United States; Human body - Symbolic aspects - United States
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [117]-124) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half title; University Seminars; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. The Good Death: Managing and Memorializing the Dead; 2. Body Commodities: The Medical Value of the Human Body and Its Parts; 3. Human, Monkey, Machine: The Brave New World of Human Hybridity; Epilogue: The Future of the Body Transformed; Notes; References Cited; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: "In Bodies, Commodities, and Biotechnologies, Lesley Sharp probes the ideological assumptions underlying the transfer of body parts, the social significance of donors' deaths, and the medico-scientific desires surrounding complex forms of body repair. Sharp also considers the experimental realm, in which nonhuman species and artificial devices present further opportunities for recovery and for controversy."--Jacket
• Titolo autorizzato: Bodies, commodities, and biotechnologies
• ISBN: 0-231-51098-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910777699903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: University seminars/Leonard Hastings Schoff memorial lectures.