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Commodifying Bodies

By Nancy Scheper-Hughes (Editor), Loïc Wacquant (Editor)
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By Nancy Scheper-Hughes (Editor), Loïc Wacquant (Editor)
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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 ...

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