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Bodies Commodities and Biotechnologies – Death, Mourning and Scientific Desire in the Realm of Human Organ Transfer: Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures

Autor Lesley Sharp
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 ian 2009
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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. This book considers the experimental realm, in which nonhuman species and artificial devices present further opportunities for recovery and for controversy.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780231138390
ISBN-10: 0231138393
Pagini: 144
Dimensiuni: 140 x 205 x 12 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Editura: Columbia University Press
Seria Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures


Notă biografică

Lesley A. Sharp is professor of anthropology at Barnard College, and senior research scientist in sociomedical sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University.

Cuprins

List of Illustrations
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. The Good Death
Managing and Memorializing the Dead2. Body Commodities
The Medical Value of the Human Body and its Parts3. Human, Monkey, Machine
The Brave New World of Human HybridityEpilogue
The Future of the Body TransformedNotes
References Cited
Index