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Representations of Organ Transplants : Western Fantasies and Black Market Realities.
Among the many spectacular scientific breakthroughs of the last hundred years, developments in biotechnology have perhaps been the most noteworthy. Bill Gates even claimed that if he were a teenager today, he'd be hacking biology. For many people, however, biotechnologies such as organ transpla...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Heidelberg :
Universitätsverlag Winter,
2014.
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| Colección: | Beiträge zur neueren Literaturgeschichte Dritte Folge.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Among the many spectacular scientific breakthroughs of the last hundred years, developments in biotechnology have perhaps been the most noteworthy. Bill Gates even claimed that if he were a teenager today, he'd be hacking biology. For many people, however, biotechnologies such as organ transplantation entail more than the mere exchange of cells and human tissue. As sites of cultural work, literary texts participate in the discourse on transplantation. They create a cultural field where opposing views on transplant surgery struggle for expression without cancelling one another. The result is an. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (334 pages). |
| ISBN: | 3825374823 9783825374822 |