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Bodies, Commodities, and Biotechnologies
Death, Mourning, and Scientific Desire in the Realm of Human Organ Transfer

 

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Bodies, Commodities, and Biotechnologies
Death, Mourning, and Scientific Desire in the Realm of Human Organ Transfer

by Lesley A. Sharp (Author)

 

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ISBN: 9780231138390

 

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A compelling scientific investigation and social critique, Bodies, Commodities, and Biotechnologies explores the pervasive, and at times pernicious, practices shaping American biomedicine in the twenty-first century.


 

ISBN 231138393
ISBN13 9780231138390
Publisher Columbia University Press
Format Paperback
Publication date 12/12/2008
Pages 144
Weight (grammes) 181
Published in United States
Height (mm) 210
Width (mm) 140

List of IllustrationsAcknowledgments
Introduction
1. The Good DeathManaging and Memorializing the Dead
2. Body CommoditiesThe Medical Value of the Human Body and its Parts
3. Human, Monkey, MachineThe Brave New World of Human Hybridity
EpilogueThe Future of the Body Transformed
NotesReferences CitedIndex