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

Lesley A. Sharp

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Paper, 144 pages, 12 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-13839-0
$22.00 / £15.00

October, 2006
Cloth, 144 pages, 12 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-13838-3
$60.00 / £41.50

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

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

Notes

References Cited

Index

Related Subjects

• Anthropology
• Health
• Philosophy of Science

Series

• Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures

About the Author

Lesley A. Sharp is professor of anthropology at Barnard College, and senior research scientist in sociomedical sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University.

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