Bodies, commodities, and biotechnologies [[electronic resource] ] : death, mourning, and scientific desire in the realm of human organ transfer / / Lesley A. Sharp |
Autore | Sharp Lesley Alexandra |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Columbia University Press, c2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (89 p.) |
Disciplina | 306.4 |
Collana | University seminars/Leonard Hastings Schoff memorial lectures |
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 |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 0-231-51098-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451687203321 |
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Bodies, commodities, and biotechnologies : death, mourning, and scientific desire in the realm of human organ transfer / / Lesley A. Sharp |
Autore | Sharp Lesley Alexandra |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Columbia University Press, , 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 129 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 306.4 |
Collana | University seminars/Leonard Hastings Schoff memorial lectures |
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 |
ISBN | 0-231-51098-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910777699903321 |
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New York : , : Columbia University Press, , 2007 | ||
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Bodies, commodities, and biotechnologies : death, mourning, and scientific desire in the realm of human organ transfer / / Lesley A. Sharp |
Autore | Sharp Lesley Alexandra |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Columbia University Press, , 2007 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xii, 129 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 306.4 |
Collana | University seminars/Leonard Hastings Schoff memorial lectures |
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 |
ISBN | 0-231-51098-5 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910808928503321 |
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New York : , : Columbia University Press, , 2007 | ||
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The possessed and the dispossessed : spirits, identity, and power in a Madagascar migrant town / / Lesley A. Sharp [[electronic resource]] |
Autore | Sharp Lesley Alexandra |
Edizione | [Reprint 2020] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, Calif. ; ; London, : University of California Press, 1993 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xix, 345 p. ) : ill. ; |
Disciplina | 306/.089/993 |
Collana | Comparative studies of health systems and medical care |
Soggetto topico |
Sakalava (Malagasy people) - Rites and ceremonies
Sakalava (Malagasy people) - Religion Sakalava (Malagasy people) - Social conditions Spirit possession - Madagascar - Ambanja Ancestor worship - Madagascar - Ambanja Sakalava (Malagasy people) - Rites and ceremonies - Ambanja - Madagascar Sakalava (Malagasy people) - Religion - Ambanja - Madagascar Spirit possession Ancestor worship Regions & Countries - Africa History & Archaeology |
ISBN |
0-520-91845-2
0-585-27680-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | ; 1. Introduction: Possession, Identity, and Power: Theoretical and Methodological Considerations -- Critical Approaches to the Study of Affliction -- Investigating Possession: Social Change, Marginality, and Religious Experience -- Logic and Methods of Inquiry -- ; pt. I. Historic, Political-Economic, and Social Levels of Experience -- ; 2. Political Economy of the Sambirano -- Ambanja, a Plantation Community -- Economic and Political History of the Region -- Local Power and Reactions to Colonialism -- ; 3. National and Local Factions: The Nature of Polyculturalism in Ambanja -- National Factions: Regionalism and Cultural Stereotypes -- Social and Cultural Divisions in Ambanja -- Effects of Polyculturalism -- ; 4. Tera-Tany and Vahiny: Insiders and Outsiders -- Migrant Stories -- Patterns of Association and Means for Incorporation -- ; pt. II. Spirit Possession in the Sambirano -- ; 5. World of the Spirits -- Dynamics of Tromba in Daily Life -- Possession Experience -- Other Members of the Spirit World -- ; 6. Sacred Knowledge and Local Power: Tromba and the Sambirano Economy -- Tromba as Ethnohistory -- Tromba, Wage Labor, and Economic Independence -- Tromba and Collective Power in the Sambirano -- ; 7. Spirit Mediumship and Social Identity -- Selfhood and Personhood in the Context of Possession -- Turning Outsiders into Insiders: Mediums' Social Networks and Personal Relationships -- Miasa ny Tromba: Mediumship as Work -- ; pt. III. Conflicts of Town Life -- ; 8. Problems and Conflicts of Town Life: The Adult World -- Malagasy Concepts of Healing -- Sickness and Death -- Work and Success -- Love and Money, Wives and Mistresses -- ; 9. Social World of Children -- Possessed Youth of Ambanja -- Disorder of a Fragmented World -- Children and Social Change -- ; 10. Exorcising the Spirits: The Alternative Therapeutics of Protestantism -- Sakalava Perceptions of Possession and Madness. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910495970203321 |
Sharp Lesley Alexandra
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Berkeley, Calif. ; ; London, : University of California Press, 1993 | ||
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The sacrificed generation [[electronic resource] ] : youth, history, and the colonized mind in Madagascar / / Lesley A. Sharp |
Autore | Sharp Lesley Alexandra |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (397 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.235/09691 |
Soggetto topico |
Youth - Madagascar
Education - Madagascar Youth - Madagascar - Political activity Imperialism |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-76251-6
9786612762512 0-520-93588-8 1-59734-884-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on the Text -- PART ONE. THE RECONSTRUCTION OF A CHILDREN'S HISTORY -- PART TWO. THE PERPLEXITIES OF URBAN SCHOOLING: SACRIFICE , SUFFERING, AND SURVIVAL -- PART THREE. FREEDOM , LABOR, AND LOYALTY -- PART FOUR. YOUTH AND THE NATION: SCHOOLING AND ITS PERILS -- APPENDIX ONE. A GUIDE TO KEY INFORMANTS -- APPENDIX TWO. POPULATION FIGURES FOR MADAGASCAR 1900-1994 -- APPENDIX THREE. POPULATION FIGURES FOR AMBANJA AND THE SAMBIRANO VALLEY -- APPENDIX FOUR. SCHOOLS IN AMBANJA AND THE SAMBIRANO VALLEY -- APPENDIX FIVE. ENROLLMENT FIGURES FOR SELECT AMBANJA SCHOOLS (PRIMARY, CEG,AND LYCÉE , 1993-94, 1994-95) -- APPENDIX SIX. BAC RESULTS AT THE STATE-RUN LYCÉE TSIRASO I, 1990-1994 -- APPENDIX SEVEN. STUDENTS' ASPIRATIONS -- NOTES -- GLOSSARY -- REFERENCES -- INDEX |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454783503321 |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002 | ||
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The sacrificed generation [[electronic resource] ] : youth, history, and the colonized mind in Madagascar / / Lesley A. Sharp |
Autore | Sharp Lesley Alexandra |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (397 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.235/09691 |
Soggetto topico |
Youth - Madagascar
Education - Madagascar Youth - Madagascar - Political activity Imperialism |
Soggetto non controllato |
africa
autobiography case study children classroom collective memory collective cross cultural cultural history cultural studies education ethnography historical conscious historical consciousness identity politics identity madagascar mass media memory national history nationalist political consciousness political politics postcolonial school social history social studies victims violence youth |
ISBN |
1-282-76251-6
9786612762512 0-520-93588-8 1-59734-884-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on the Text -- PART ONE. THE RECONSTRUCTION OF A CHILDREN'S HISTORY -- PART TWO. THE PERPLEXITIES OF URBAN SCHOOLING: SACRIFICE , SUFFERING, AND SURVIVAL -- PART THREE. FREEDOM , LABOR, AND LOYALTY -- PART FOUR. YOUTH AND THE NATION: SCHOOLING AND ITS PERILS -- APPENDIX ONE. A GUIDE TO KEY INFORMANTS -- APPENDIX TWO. POPULATION FIGURES FOR MADAGASCAR 1900-1994 -- APPENDIX THREE. POPULATION FIGURES FOR AMBANJA AND THE SAMBIRANO VALLEY -- APPENDIX FOUR. SCHOOLS IN AMBANJA AND THE SAMBIRANO VALLEY -- APPENDIX FIVE. ENROLLMENT FIGURES FOR SELECT AMBANJA SCHOOLS (PRIMARY, CEG,AND LYCÉE , 1993-94, 1994-95) -- APPENDIX SIX. BAC RESULTS AT THE STATE-RUN LYCÉE TSIRASO I, 1990-1994 -- APPENDIX SEVEN. STUDENTS' ASPIRATIONS -- NOTES -- GLOSSARY -- REFERENCES -- INDEX |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780079003321 |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002 | ||
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The sacrificed generation [[electronic resource] ] : youth, history, and the colonized mind in Madagascar / / Lesley A. Sharp |
Autore | Sharp Lesley Alexandra |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (397 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.235/09691 |
Soggetto topico |
Youth - Madagascar
Education - Madagascar Youth - Madagascar - Political activity Imperialism |
Soggetto non controllato |
africa
autobiography case study children classroom collective memory collective cross cultural cultural history cultural studies education ethnography historical conscious historical consciousness identity politics identity madagascar mass media memory national history nationalist political consciousness political politics postcolonial school social history social studies victims violence youth |
ISBN |
1-282-76251-6
9786612762512 0-520-93588-8 1-59734-884-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on the Text -- PART ONE. THE RECONSTRUCTION OF A CHILDREN'S HISTORY -- PART TWO. THE PERPLEXITIES OF URBAN SCHOOLING: SACRIFICE , SUFFERING, AND SURVIVAL -- PART THREE. FREEDOM , LABOR, AND LOYALTY -- PART FOUR. YOUTH AND THE NATION: SCHOOLING AND ITS PERILS -- APPENDIX ONE. A GUIDE TO KEY INFORMANTS -- APPENDIX TWO. POPULATION FIGURES FOR MADAGASCAR 1900-1994 -- APPENDIX THREE. POPULATION FIGURES FOR AMBANJA AND THE SAMBIRANO VALLEY -- APPENDIX FOUR. SCHOOLS IN AMBANJA AND THE SAMBIRANO VALLEY -- APPENDIX FIVE. ENROLLMENT FIGURES FOR SELECT AMBANJA SCHOOLS (PRIMARY, CEG,AND LYCÉE , 1993-94, 1994-95) -- APPENDIX SIX. BAC RESULTS AT THE STATE-RUN LYCÉE TSIRASO I, 1990-1994 -- APPENDIX SEVEN. STUDENTS' ASPIRATIONS -- NOTES -- GLOSSARY -- REFERENCES -- INDEX |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910828681203321 |
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Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2002 | ||
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The transplant imaginary : mechanical hearts, animal parts, and moral thinking in highly experimental science / / Lesley A. Sharp |
Autore | Sharp Lesley Alexandra |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2014] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (236 p.) |
Disciplina | 617.954 |
Soggetto topico |
Ethnology - United States
Medical anthropology - United States Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc - Social aspects - United States |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
0-520-27796-1
0-520-95715-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Machine generated contents note: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Moral Neutrality in Experimental Science -- 1. The Reconfigured Body of the Transplant Imaginary -- 2. Hybrid Bodies and Animal Science: The Promises of Interspecies Proximity -- 3. Artificial Life: Perfecting the Mechanical Heart -- 4. Temporality and Social Desire in Anticipatory Science -- Conclusion: The Moral Parameters of Virtuous Science -- Notes -- References -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910452454303321 |
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Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2014] | ||
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The transplant imaginary : mechanical hearts, animal parts, and moral thinking in highly experimental science / / Lesley A. Sharp |
Autore | Sharp Lesley Alexandra |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2014] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (236 p.) |
Disciplina | 617.954 |
Soggetto topico |
Ethnology - United States
Medical anthropology - United States Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc - Social aspects - United States |
Soggetto non controllato |
animals
bioengineering black market current debate debates in science designing implantable mechanical devices determination ethics experimentation fleshy organs from animals for human use health care human body human form human parts human suffering life and death marketing of organs medicine moral thinking morality organ donation organ scarcity organ transplant organ transplantation organs scarcity science surgery surgical theoretical treatment xenotransplantation |
ISBN |
0-520-27796-1
0-520-95715-6 |
Classificazione | SOC002000SOC000000MED022000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Machine generated contents note: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Moral Neutrality in Experimental Science -- 1. The Reconfigured Body of the Transplant Imaginary -- 2. Hybrid Bodies and Animal Science: The Promises of Interspecies Proximity -- 3. Artificial Life: Perfecting the Mechanical Heart -- 4. Temporality and Social Desire in Anticipatory Science -- Conclusion: The Moral Parameters of Virtuous Science -- Notes -- References -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910790521103321 |
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Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2014] | ||
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The transplant imaginary : mechanical hearts, animal parts, and moral thinking in highly experimental science / / Lesley A. Sharp |
Autore | Sharp Lesley Alexandra |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2014] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (236 p.) |
Disciplina | 617.954 |
Soggetto topico |
Ethnology - United States
Medical anthropology - United States Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc - Social aspects - United States |
Soggetto non controllato |
animals
bioengineering black market current debate debates in science designing implantable mechanical devices determination ethics experimentation fleshy organs from animals for human use health care human body human form human parts human suffering life and death marketing of organs medicine moral thinking morality organ donation organ scarcity organ transplant organ transplantation organs scarcity science surgery surgical theoretical treatment xenotransplantation |
ISBN |
0-520-27796-1
0-520-95715-6 |
Classificazione | SOC002000SOC000000MED022000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Machine generated contents note: List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Moral Neutrality in Experimental Science -- 1. The Reconfigured Body of the Transplant Imaginary -- 2. Hybrid Bodies and Animal Science: The Promises of Interspecies Proximity -- 3. Artificial Life: Perfecting the Mechanical Heart -- 4. Temporality and Social Desire in Anticipatory Science -- Conclusion: The Moral Parameters of Virtuous Science -- Notes -- References -- Index. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910807630203321 |
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Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [2014] | ||
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