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A proliferation of press headlines, social science texts and "ethical" concerns about the social implications of recent developments in human genetics and biomedicine have created a sense that, at least in European and American contexts, both the way we treat the human body and our attitud...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Kaufman, Sharon R. (Contribuidor), Lambert, Helen (Contribuidor, Editor ), McDonald, Maryon (Contribuidor, Editor ), Peers, Laura (Contribuidor), Robb, John (Contribuidor), Russ, Ann J. (Contribuidor), Shim, Janet K. (Contribuidor), Steger, Maja Petrovic (Contribuidor), Strathern, Marilyn (Contribuidor), Vilaça, Aparecida (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2009]
Temas:
Human body > Social aspects > Case studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Introduction
  • 1 Aged Bodies and Kinship Matters: The Ethical Field of Kidney Transplant
  • 2 Anatomizing Conflict - Accommodating Human Remains
  • 3 On the Treatment of Dead Enemies: Indigenous Human Remains in Britain in the Early Twenty-first Century
  • 4 Towards a Critical Ötziography: Inventing Prehistoric Bodies
  • 5 Bodies in Perspective: A Critique of the Embodiment Paradigm from the Point of View of Amazonian Ethnography
  • 6 Using Bodies to Communicate
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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