Exchanging Human Bodily Material: Rethinking Bodies and Markets

Exchanging Human Bodily Material: Rethinking Bodies and Markets
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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages : 200
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ISBN-10 : 9789400752641
ISBN-13 : 9400752644
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Book Synopsis Exchanging Human Bodily Material: Rethinking Bodies and Markets by : Klaus Hoeyer

Download or read book Exchanging Human Bodily Material: Rethinking Bodies and Markets written by Klaus Hoeyer and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-01-05 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the debate usually tagged as being about ’markets in human body parts’ which is antagonistically divided into pro-market and anti-market positions. The author provides a set of propositions about how to approach this and shows a way out of the concrete impasse of it. Assumptions about markets and bodies that characterize this debate are analyzed and described while the author argues that these assumptions are in fact constitutive for exchanges of human bodily material – but in unacknowledged ways. It is concluded that what we need is a different analytical approach to better understand the mechanisms at play when organizations exchange organs, tissues and cells for use in transplantation and fertility medicine. ​


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