With rapid developments in reproductive medicine, transplant ethics and bioethics, a new `ethic of parts' has emerged in which the body is increasingly seen as a commodity which can be bartered, sold or stolen. This book combines perspectives from anthropology and sociology to offer compelling new readings of the body.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Bodies for Sale - Whole or in Parts - Nancy Scheper-Hughes
The Other Kidney - Lawrence Cohen
Biopolitics Beyond Recognition
Commodity Fetishism in Organs Trafficking - Nancy Scheper-Hughes
The Alienation of Body Tissues and the Biopolitics of Immortalized Cell Lines - Margaret Lock
The Immigrating Body and the Body Politic - Meira Weiss
The The Yeminite Children Affair and Body Commodification in Israel
The Cremated Catholic - Stanley Brandes
The Ends of a Deceased Guatemalan
Bodies That Don t Matter - Eric Klinenberg
Death and Dereliction in Chicago
Semen as Gift, Semen as Goods - Diane M Tober
Reproductive Workers and The Market in Altruism
Excess Scarcity and Desire among Drug-Using Sex Workers - Maria E Epele
Whores, Slaves and Stallions - Loic Wacquant
Languages of Exlpoitation and Accommodation among Professional Boxers
