Bodies, commodities, and biotechnologies : death, mourning, and scientific desire in the realm of human organ transfer /
"In Bodies, Commodities, and Biotechnologies, Lesley Sharp 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. Sharp also considers the experimental...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
©2007.
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Colección: | University seminars/Leonard Hastings Schoff memorial lectures.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. The good death : managing and memorializing the dead
- 2. Body commodities : the medical value of the human body and its parts
- 3. Human, monkey, machine : the brave new world of human hybridity
- Epilogue. The future of the body transformed.