Social Bodies /

Social Bodies / / ed. by Helen Lambert, Maryon McDonald.

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A proliferation of press headlines, social science texts and “ethical” concerns about the social implications of recent developments in human genetics and biomedicine have created a sense that, at least in European and American contexts, both the way we treat the human body and our attitudes towards...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
MitwirkendeR:
Kaufman, Sharon R.,
Lambert, Helen,
McDonald, Maryon,
Peers, Laura,
Robb, John,
Russ, Ann J.,
Shim, Janet K.,
Steger, Maja Petrovic,
Strathern, Marilyn,
Vilaça, Aparecida,
HerausgeberIn:
Lambert, Helen,
McDonald, Maryon,
Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (194 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Introduction
  • 1 Aged Bodies and Kinship Matters: The Ethical Field of Kidney Transplant
  • 2 Anatomizing Conflict – Accommodating Human Remains
  • 3 On the Treatment of Dead Enemies: Indigenous Human Remains in Britain in the Early Twenty-first Century
  • 4 Towards a Critical Ötziography: Inventing Prehistoric Bodies
  • 5 Bodies in Perspective: A Critique of the Embodiment Paradigm from the Point of View of Amazonian Ethnography
  • 6 Using Bodies to Communicate
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Index

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