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Bodies, commodities, and biotechnologies : death, mourning, and scientific desire in the realm of human organ transfer /

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Main Author: Sharp, Lesley Alexandra
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2007.
Subjects:
Organs (Anatomy) > Social aspects > United States.
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. > Social aspects > United States.
Human body > Social aspects > United States.
Human body > Symbolic aspects > United States.
Death.
Grief.
Organ Transplantation > ethics
Death
Grief
Biotechnology > ethics
Human Body
deaths.
grief.
United States
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780231510981
0231510985
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 1. The good death : managing and memorializing the dead
  • 2. Body commodities : the medical value of the human body and its parts
  • 3. Human, monkey, machine : the brave new world of human hybridity
  • Epilogue. The future of the body transformed.

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