Edición de la obra Commodifying bodies
| Autor | Nancy Scheper-Hughes, Loic Wacquant |
|---|---|
| Editorial | Sage Publications, SAGE Publications Ltd, Sage Publications Ltd |
| Fecha de publicación | 2002 |
| Lugar | London, Thousand Oaks, Calif |
| Idioma | inglés |
| Páginas | 199 |
| ISBN-10 | 0761940332, 0761940340 |
| OCLC | 51510627 |
| LCCN | 2002105445 |
| Número de Cutter | S325c |
Increasingly the body is a possession that does not belong to us. It is bought and sold, bartered and stolen, marketed wholesale or in parts. The professions - especially reproductive medicine, transplant surgery, and bioethics but also journalism and other cultural specialists - have been pliant partners in this accelerating commodification of live and dead human organisms. Under the guise of healing or research, they have contributed to a new 'ethic of parts' for which the divisible body is severed from the self, torn from the social fabric, and thrust into commercial transactions -- as organs, secretions, reproductive capacities, and tissues -- responding to the dictates of an incipiently global marketplace.