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

• Pubblicazione: London, : Sage Publications, 2002; 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 WacquantLoic J. D
• 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.
• 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
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Theory, culture & society.