Commodifying Bodies

By Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Scheper-Hughes Nancy, WACQUANT LOIC

Book Overview

With rapid developments in reproductive medicine, transplant ethics and bioethics, a new ethic of parts' has emerged in which the body is increasingly seen as a commodity which can be bartered, sold or stolen. This book combines perspectives from anthropology and sociology to offer compelling new readings of the body.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761940340
• ISBN13: 9780761940340
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Sage Publications UK
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"