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Commodifying bodies / edited by Nancy Scheper-Hughes and Loïc Wacquant.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: London ; Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage, 2002Description: 199 pages ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0761940340
  • 9780761940340
  • 0761940332
  • 9780761940333
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.461 21
Contents:
Bodies for sale : whole or in parts / Nancy Scheper-Hughes -- The other kidney : biopolitics beyond recognition / Lawrence Cohen -- Commodity fetishism in organs trafficking / Nancy Scheper-Hughes -- The alienation of body tissue and the biopolitics of immortalized cell lines / Margaret Lock -- The immigrating body and the body politics : the "Yemenite children affair" and body commodification in Israel / Meira Weiss -- The cremated Catholic : the ends of a deceased Guatemalan / Stanley Brandes -- Bodies that don't matter : death and dereliction in Chicago / Eric Klinenberg -- Semen as a gift, semen as goods : reproductive workers and the market in altruism / Diane M. Tober -- Excess, scarcity and desire among drug-using sex workers / María E. Epele -- Whores, slaves and stallions : languages of exploitation and accommodation among professional boxers / Loïc Wacquant.
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Book City Campus City Campus Main Collection 306.461 COM (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available A410152B

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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

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