Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Life and death at strangeways: the tissue-culture point of view / Susan M. Squier
  • Immortality, in vitro: a history of the HeLa cell line / Hannah Landecker
  • "From generations to generation": imagining connectedness in the age of reproductive technologies / Thomas W. Laqueur
  • Mediating intimacy: black surrogate mothers and the law / Deborah Grayson
  • Body boundaries, fiction of the female self: an ethnographic perspective on power, feminism, and the reproductive technologies / Gillian M. Goslinga-Roy
  • An all-consuming experience: obstetrical ultrasound and the commodification of pregnancy / Janelle S. Taylor / Computerized cadavers: shades of being and representation in virtual reality / Thomas J. Csordas
  • Chorea/graphing chorea: the dancing body of Huntington's Disease / Alice Ruth Wexler
  • The ventilator/baby as cyborg: a case study in technology and medical ethics / Robert M. Nelson
  • The ethics of the organ market: Lloyd R. Cohen and the free marketeers / Donald Joralemon
  • Reach out and heal someone: rural telemedicine and the globalization of U.S. health care / Lisa Cartwright
  • Biotechnology on the margins: a Haitian discourse on French medicine / Paul E. Brodwin.