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Type: BOOK - Published: 2002-10-18 - Publisher: SAGE

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With rapid developments in reproductive medicine, transplant ethics and bioethics, a new `ethic of parts' has emerged in which the body is increasingly seen as
Commodifying Bodies
Language: en
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Authors: Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Categories: Social Science
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Increasingly the body is a possession that does not belong to us. It is bought and sold, bartered and stolen, marketed wholesale or in parts. The professions -
Commodifying Bodies
Language: en
Pages: 208
Authors: Nancy Scheper-Hughes
Categories: Social Science
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"Breaking with established approaches which prioritize the body as 'text', the chapters in this book examine not only images of the body-turned-merchandise but
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Increasingly the body is a possession that does not belong to us. It is bought and sold, bartered and stolen, marketed wholesale or in parts. The professions -
The Body
Language: en
Pages: 145
Authors: Chris Shilling
Categories: Medical
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In this introduction, Chris Shilling considers the social significance of the human body, and the importance of the body to individual and collective identities