Remaking Life and Death: Toward an Anthropology of the Biosciences

by Sarah Franklin

Book Overview

The boundaries of life now occupy a place of central concern among biological anthropologists. Because of the centrality of the modern biological definition of life to Euro-American medicine and anthropology, the definition of life itself and its contestation exemplify competing uses of knowledge. On the one hand, life and death may be redefined as partial or contingent (brain death), or reconstituted altogether (virtual or artificial life). On...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1930618204
• ISBN13: 9781930618206
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: School for Advanced Research Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"