Commodifying bodies /

Commodifying bodies / edited by Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Loïc Wacquant. - 199 pages ; 24 cm

Originally published as Body & society, volume 7, numbers 2-3, 2001.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bodies for sale : whole or in parts / The other kidney : biopolitics beyond recognition / Commodity fetishism in organs trafficking / The alienation of body tissue and the biopolitics of immortalized cell lines / The immigrating body and the body politics : the "Yemenite children affair" and body commodification in Israel / The cremated Catholic : the ends of a deceased Guatemalan / Bodies that don't matter : death and dereliction in Chicago / Semen as a gift, semen as goods : reproductive workers and the market in altruism / Excess, scarcity and desire among drug-using sex workers / Whores, slaves and stallions : languages of exploitation and accommodation among professional boxers / Nancy Scheper-Hughes -- Lawrence Cohen -- Nancy Scheper-Hughes -- Margaret Lock -- Meira Weiss -- Stanley Brandes -- Eric Klinenberg -- Diane M. Tober -- María E. Epele -- Loïc Wacquant.

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Human body--Social aspects
Human body--Economic aspects
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc.--Economic aspects
Bioethics.

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