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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Lambert, Helen, 1960-, McDonald, Maryon
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2009.
Series:Ebook Central Academic Complete Collection
Subjects:
Human body > Social aspects > Case studies.
Bioethics.
Anthropology, Physical > ethics
Human Body
Ethnology > ethics
Bioethical Issues
Corps humain > Aspect social > Études de cas.
Bioéthique.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Human body > Social aspects
Körper
Sozialanthropologie
Människokroppen.
Case Reports
Case studies
Case studies.
Études de cas.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Aged bodies and kinship matters: the ethical field of kidney transplant / Sharon R. Kaufman, Ann J. Russ and Janet K. Shim
  • Anatomizing conflict: accommodating human remains / Maja Petrović-Šteger
  • On the treatment of dead enemies: indigenous human remains in Britain in the early twentieth-first century / Laura Peers
  • Towards a critical Otziography: inventing prehistoric bodies / John Robb
  • Bodies in perspective: a critique of the embodiment paradigm from the point of view of Amazonian ethnography / Aparecida Vilaça
  • Using bodies to communicate / Marilyn Strathern.

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