Commodifying Bodies

by Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Scheper-Hughes Nancy, WACQUANT LOIC

Book Overview

Increasingly the body is a possession that does not belong to us. It is bought and sold, bartered and stolen, marketed wholesale or in parts. The professions - especially reproductive medicine, transplant surgery, and bioethics but also journalism and other cultural specialists - have been pliant partners in this accelerating commodification of live and dead human organisms. Under the guise of healing or research, they have contributed to a new ′ethic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761940332
• ISBN13: 9780761940333
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Sage Publications Ltd
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.3" x 9.5"